Kaden's POV:
I hadn't slept at all last night, me and Luke had been taking turns crushing those berries, and when we finally finished, we had to find a way to make it look like the plague, and guide Colin and Teddy through the process. In the end, it had taken us till 3am and we were covered in spots that looked slightly believable. Personally, I had never come into contact with the plague, Colin and Teddy said an outbreak had started in their town when they were very young, they had moved away, but thought we could pass. Luke wasn't sure, but it was our only chance. When the guards made their morning rounds, we pretended to be asleep and I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing when one of them cried out, his voice was weirdly high, and it was hilarious. I heard some scrambling around and a key in the lock.
"Yes!" I whispered, it had worked. I was shook "awake" by a burly guard and I could see Luke receiving the same treatment
"Get up lil' runt, yer sick" the man huffed
"Wha?" I played dumb as they chained my hands together, we were matched to a tall building about 3 miles of. It was 2 floors so I could probably jump from the window no matter where they put us. That was good, already, I was forming an escape plan. When they locked us in our room, it was all white, with around 30 beds on each side, it was gigantic! I shrugged and layed down on the first one, my eyes closed, plotting.
"Kaden" Luke's voice pulled me out of my thoughts "We need to get out of here, do you have ideas? Come on man, were depending on you for this!"
" Okay" I said, annoyed "Relax, we need to get as many sheets as possible, but make sure the nurses don't notice" I said
"Nurses?" Teddy said, confused "I don't see any nurses around"
"Trust me" I said "you will" he seemed to accept that, so I let it go.
We were busy stripping the second sheet of our beds and the first off all the others. From what Colin said, this way they wouldn't notice. Finally, after about 5 hours, 4 nurse alerts and 60 beds that had lost their sheets, we were ready for the grand escape. With all the sheets tied together, we had more than enough length of rope...ish to get us to the ground. The nurses were not nice, and one of them had almost discovered it was à trick! Thankfully, she had been called over to look at Teddy, who had pretended to faint. It was almost 11 and we were all super excited, we were finally getting out of here! We tied the sheet o à bedpost and tied the bed to several others so it would hold our weight. Luke went first, when he got to the ground, he called up to us, Colin went, and then Teddy. I had lowered myself out the window and had begun climbing down when a nurse came in, she had probably heard the noise we had made moving the beds around. I did the only thing I could think of, I jumped. I landed badly, almost breaking my ankle again, Luke was beside me in a second.
"Kaden, what happened, why'd you jump?" he said
"Nurses" I gasped "They found out, we need to run" he nodded and we all took off, heading for the shipyard. There was à nightwatchman, but we easily evaded him, Thalia wanted à huge ship called Mary Brown, but I knew that à smaller ship was better for us.
"Over here" I called, spotting à small sailing ship on the far side, they were panting, completely wiped out. We all climbed aboard and left, The Lost, it was called, not à good name, but good enough for me. The only thing I wanted right now, was to find Isabella, she was my one true friend and I knew she missed me, I missed her too.