A sound awoke De-Ji out of her light nap. It was the doorknob jiggling slightly. Somebody must be unlocking the door. She nudged Suta to wake up. A guard came in and announced that Dokueki was coming. All the girls stood up again, and secretly wished that it wouldn't be them. Suta and De-Ji stood next to each other, shoulder to shoulder. The man stepped inside and looked around, then laughed.
"Hmm.. they're all so hot… Which one do you think I should take, guard?" he questioned the guard. The guard became flustered and started looking around, and blood gathered to his cheeks due to his thoughts. Both of their gazes passed over De-Ji and Suta slowly, and landed on the black-haired girl. The girl swallowed nervously. The guard and Dokueki looked at each other, grinned, and nodded. The guard waded through the bodies of all the women, and grabbed the black-haired woman's arm. She tensed, but strangely didn't resist. She walked along the guard, her backbone straight and proud. Dokueki laughed, then escorted the girl out of the room. The guard sneered at the girls inside, then slammed the door shut. A sigh went through the room. De-Ji nodded to Suta, and Suta made a confirmation noise. She walked over to the back wall and started pounding on it again, pausing when the guard came in, suspiciously watching them for a while, then shutting the door again. All the girls in the room pressed against the other wall to give Suta a little room. It was slow work because of the loud noise that was made, making the guard check up on them way more than usual. Suta's eyes were glowing brightly, but she saw a small stream of light coming through a crack in the wall. The pieces of metal that held the room together were finally coming apart. She relinquished her powers for a bit, and called De-Ji to her side. She showed her the spot of light on the floor and the rivulet of light. A smile lit up De-Ji's face, then she turned around and showed everyone the light. A roar of joy filled the room, and escaped through the cracks in the door.
Outside, the guard heard a great bellowing from inside, and fumbled with his key, dropped it, picked it back up and put it inside the lock. The girls inside were too busy, and were making too much noise to notice him opening the door. He looked around and saw a crack in the opposite wall. So that's what they had been doing. A young girl, who looked about thirteen,was sitting in the corner smiling, turned at the new light behind and saw him. She gasped, and pulled on one of the women's shirts. The woman glared at her, annoyed that she had interrupted her merriment. The young girl pointed at him, and the older woman looked. The woman's eyes grew wide and she yelled out to everyone. Everyone stopped and looked at him. A blonde-haired girl who was standing by the whole in the wall, scooted over to cover the hole with her body, but it was too late. The guard had already seen it, and pointed out the door, accenting the gesture with the whip in his hand. The girls sullenly walked out, bitterness and hopelessness on their faces. De-Ji followed Suta outside, angry with their failure, and trying to think up a new way to escape. All the girls were led into another room, similar to the first, but a little bigger. De-Ji and Suta sat down and talked quietly.
"How can we escape now?" Suta asked De-Ji. De-Ji shrugged and sighed.
"However we do it, it needs to be quiet, and when the guards are sleeping or something. There's got to be another way out," De-JI said, not quite believing herself.