Again, sorry for the short chappy, but here it is! More soon!
Keeping to the shadows, Kate followed Corin to his room, making sure that she could not be seen. When he was about to close the door, she stepped into the light. Corin's eyes widened in shock, and then he fell in Kate's arms, much like the way he did when they first met. "Oh, Kate!" he sighed. "I knew you'd rescue me! But how did you get in? And you must help me escape. The torture I've suffered at the hands of these barbarians! No manners at all. But, according to 'Dungeons in Dangerous Dwellings: A Guide to the Perfect Prison', which I found under the bed, this place is a typical cell room." Rising, he opened the door and let her in. Kate wrinkled her nose as stale air flew out to meet her. As Corin closed the door, Kate blinked in the dim light. As her eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, she could see a bare iron bed with a wafer-thin mattress, a moldy chair, and a small window with iron bars across it. Kate heard squeaking, and she turned to Corin questioningly. He shrugged, sitting down on the bed gingerly. "It's only the mice," he said. Kate raised her eyebrows in surprise. Only mice? This place must really be awful, to have changed Corin so. The Corin she remembered would have swooned at the very word 'mice'. Corin shifted to a more comfortable position on the bed. "I tried to make friends with them, the way it said in 'What To Do If You're Imprisoned'," he continued, "but the mice kept running away. So I've been sitting around and trying to find out how to escape. I tried the 'Tie Your Sheets and Slip Out the Window' method, but that didn't work because of the iron bars. And I haven't found any enchanted mice to help me escape." Corin suddenly grabbed Kate's arm and looked up at her with pleading and desperate eyes. "Kate, you have to get me out of here! They're marrying me off to their chief, and the wedding is tomorrow!" He shuddered. Kate felt extremely sorry for her husband, of whom she was extremely fond.
"Don't worry," she said soothingly. "I'll get you out of here if it's the last thing I do. We'll make a plan. In fact, I've got a plan already. Here's what we do…"