I wake up the next morning to Kiera crying in the bed. I sit up and pull her over and hold her.
"I know they were your family. I am sorry that they went that way, but we need to focus now on other ways out of here."
"But could they not have gone somewhere else."
" I don't think we are near anyone or anywhere else. There are some very interesting things about this place. For one, the lake being so cold and never warming up. There is also the lack of any real vegetation other than grass. Did you find it odd that there are no trees here?"
"I did, but we could not really come up with an answer."
"All the evidence appears to point to us being on a frozen land mass. The temperature is being regulated within the area that we are being held."
"How can anyone do that?"
"Technology from my time could have done some of this, but some of this is beyond any technology I have seen. This prison looks to have been specifically created by someone to hold people without having to answer to anyone on what happens here and they don't need any guards to police the residents."
"That would explain the lack of other people other than us within this settlement."
"Whoever is putting people here seems to want to remove people from society, but is not callous enough or willing to just kill them."
"What can do now?"
"The only variable here is the storeroom. We are going to have to concentrate on figuring a way to use it for us."
"What can you do that we have not tried?"
"I may have a trick or two up my sleeve. Why don't we get out of here and go for a jog. I need to think about our options some more before we try anything."
"That sounds like an excellent idea."
So we get changed and head outside for a jog around the lake. It has been a great activity to get my heart going as well as get my mind thinking about solutions to our problem. When we finish, we head back to the house for a shower and then we sit down for breakfast.
"I believe that I may have a way to go where the storeroom is be being transported."
"What do you have in mind?"
"With my suit, I am able to make myself invisible to human eyes, but I am uncertain how they monitor the room and are able to know when people in the settlement are not inside."
"What can I do to help?"
"You will go to the storeroom and pick up some supplies. I will follow you over and in while invisible, and you will leave. I will wait in the room and see what happens."
"How will you get back if it works?"
"We know that the room is restocked when items are removed from it. It is probably done once a day. So if I can't get back here on my own. You should remove more items tomorrow so that the room is restocked again, and I will hopefully be in the room when it returns."
"I sounds very risky, but there does not seem to be any other way out of here."
"It is very risky and if these are the same agents that attacked and captured me, they had the ability to see through the cloaking ability of my suit. So I will need to stay out of view of people while moving around, since I don't quite know how they could see me."
"I will do my part from this side and I hope you can find a way to save us." and Kiera comes around hugs me.
"I don't think there is much reason to delay," and I go retrieve my suit and put it on. "This is hopefully not goodbye, and I will be back soon." Kiera and I hug for one long moment as we have grown close to each other over the past few weeks and this just may be the last we see each other. When we are done with our hug I activate the cloaking around myself and I am invisible.
Kiera makes her way to the storeroom and she grabs a few items and whispers "Good luck Kiera" as she walks out the door.
I am hunched next to some shelves for what seems like a few hours and then there is bright flash of light and it takes a few moments for my eyes adjust. I am not in the storeroom any more.
