Chapter 30: Misery: Unchained
So to recap: I'm being held against my will, I have a bomb stuck to my hand, I just watched my father get brutally muredered by DeDe, the rest of the gang are en route to my location to spring me from the clink and…
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I could've sworn there was something else, what am I forgetting?
Oh yeah Misery! Let's check back in with her.
Misery was making her way through the rubanesque landscape of Gloomsville, deciding to take the first part of her journey on foot. She wore her outfit proudly although it's never easy to run in high heels, but whenever you do people tend to focus more on that then what's really going on.
While she strolled along she was devise a game plan.
In her head she thought.
"Ok I'm gonna have to find a way to get myself to where Zaí is. I think she called her home the Lake of Zombies, but if I recall correctly she said the place was overrun by bloodthirsty witches. I wonder how they'd react to me?"
"What am I thinking?! I can just go marching straight into their town and start asking around where she might be, that's the best way to arouse suspicion. If I'm untrustworthy they're going to be on me faster than the hideous blemishes on great-great-great aunt Malignancy after she contacted the black plague! Bless her soul." Misery said reminiscing about her ill-fated distant relative.
"I guess there's only two options: A.) Disguise myself as a witch to avoid any unwanted attention or B.) Use extreme stealth techniques to keep on the down low." After almost no time at all Misery decided on plan A since plan B had a much bigger margin of error. "Alright I'll need a cloak and some kind of weapon in case my cover is blown."
She then stopped and dug into her wide varray of provisions.
"Ok, gotta find.. Aha! this'll certainly make myself scarce." She said pulling out a dark cloak she had taken in case of rain and/or a sudden snowfall to protect herself from hypothermia. "Now I'll need a weapon." but Misery unfortunately didn't have any weapons in her bag, just the essentials food, water, clothing, survival equipment etc., but nothing that could be used as a weapon. Since her friends were a peaceful gang they really had no use for anything harmful.
"Oh well, guess I'll just have to wing it." Misery told herself putting the cloak back in the bag before putting the bag back on.
"I've gotta go to the Lake of Zombies. Now the question is, how am I going to get there?" She pondered.
"Zaí got here by train, but I highly doubt there's a train headed towards an open battlefield." so she thought hard of a way to get to the Lake of Zombies without attracting any sort of unnecessary attention.
She began pacing the ground pondering her next move.
Suddenly, Misery tripped on an upturned tree root and stumbled forward, much to her surprise a secret tunnel opened up in the ground in front of her and she fell forwards into the hole headfirst.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" she cried out as she descended, sliding down the metal tunnel into the unknown.
the way she needed to go had revealed itself to her, somewhat by accident.
(Well, where is Misery sliding to now? Her destiny? Stay tuned readers and find out soon enough.)