Chapter 9
Treasure
Anonym continued to follow the elders to the a.s.sumed father. The cup she was holding lost a few drops and she slowed down to not lose anymore of the great freedom elixir! Now though, she was putting why too much thought on saving the liquid in the cup, because she nearly lost the elders as they had walked further and further away. She stopped then, it was a predicament. She only wanted to sip the freedom elixir right now, not gobble it up...But if she didn"t gobble it up, they would get further away from her.
Her mind wasn"t working fast or smart at all. The poor little ten-year-old’s head was really starting to hurt!
Sighing, she put down the cup, very carefully and out of the way, and tried to catch up to the elders, tripping over her feet once alone the way.
They walked down the spooky hallway from a large inner room, towards a side room that got darker and smellier as they went. Anonym could see a certain amount of people that were mind controlled and waiting for their next commands. They were only in small rooms that were closed tightly and locked. It made her wonder what they had done with this little girl when she was mind controlled, did they use her to infiltrate another clan?
Finally, they reached the old man that was barely alive. Anonym put her head to the side, from behind someone"s body, to inspect him. They really must have put him through h.e.l.l to have him in such a state to have lifeless eyes. There was dried blood on his ripped clothes and new blood flowing down his left leg, from a place that seemed like it was coming from his stomach area. It really looked like he hadn"t long left to live as he was being held up but hanging down, looking like he couldn"t even stand!
Wasn"t he supposed to be a hostage for exchange? Would a normal ten-year-old girl still do the exchange, seeing her father in such a state? Maybe that was why they did it, because she was just a measly, little ten-year-old girl...
Coming out from behind the elders, she walked up to the old man and whispered, "Hey! Tell me whadie need ta know before yer die!"
The old man hung there but flinched to her words, the elders saw this and said to start his torture again.
Anonym saw that they wanted to take her spot right beside the old man and got a bit angry. She was in the middle of a conversation! Such impudence!
"Get...Away." The old man whispered to her as she was shoved to the floor. It was a weird kind of shove, as the other men hadn"t come that close to her yet!
Right now, everything was annoying! She had to stop drinking when she wasn"t ready too, she had to walk, when she wanted to sit and now she wanted to have a quick chat but people were getting in her way!
As she sat there, trying to see properly and wonder how she would get her pay back, they took the old man and laid him out onto a wooden bench. Ah, now was a good time to ask questions, right?
But it was a few steps away, really, she wasn"t sure if she could walk towards it...Anonym decided to crawl over, finding it slightly funny that she seems to remember she wasn"t in the best of situations right now! But, she was already here! She had to make the best of her time, it was now against her own rule to waste time! And having come here to see the father, she had to talk to him...
Sitting under the table and sighing with relief, to the world not shaking as much, Anonym looked around to still see several men inside the room. By now the elders had vacated, but the others that had remained seemed to be ones to help tie the old man down and get some utensils organized. It seemed like an appropriate time to try and become sober again, so, she crossed her legs and meditated.
In her luck, another minute or two later, about four others left, leaving only three people left inside of the room with her. When the door finally closed, it was locked, and the three men got to work by talking about getting information on how to obtain someone invisible in another way. The strange thing was, the best time to capture the little runt, that had invisibility, would be precisely this moment!
Anonym was fully concentrating on becoming soberer, as to question the father, and wasn"t paying attention to anything else. But they had no idea that she was in the same locked room already! If they had known, they wouldn"t unlock that door until she was mind controlled again!
When Anonym opened her eyes, that were now refreshed, she looked around and saw that they had already started to lightly torture the old man.
Wait! I haven"t questioned him yet! Were her first thoughts.
Getting up in a hurry, she looked at what her plan would be.
She would be better off killing them before talking...Right? They would be able to hear their conversation if they were alive...She really wasn"t in the mood for eavesdroppers!
All she had was a simple little dagger. Could she be quick enough to kill them with this tiny dagger, against three huge men?
Shrugging, Anonym didn"t care, if she got caught again, she"d just have to get out of it. It really wasn"t too much of a big deal, except, it would be wasting time...So, on that account, she was going to try her d.a.m.ned hardest!
The first man to die was made to look like an accident as he fell onto one of the utensils that went straight through his head, as he had tripped forward.
Quickly, after the first man fell forwards, Anonym brought her dagger to slice another man"s throat, then grabbed the other man"s jaw and pulled out his tongue. Slicing his tongue out, she didn"t have to bother anymore about someone shouting out anything and she happily threw it away, then she wiped the blood off her dagger. Three bodies fell to the fall in a matter of moments!
If they had been able to see her, things would have been totally different, but they hadn"t! She had literally jumped from the table onto the first persons back, when he was in a good spot, and from there, jumped towards the neck of the other man"s, that was close by. Being small she wouldn"t have been able to grab the other man"s jaw without first jumping up onto his body as well. Luckily his clothes were tight and she climbed well and fast enough to get to his chest, with her feet around him to keep her there, to capture his jaw. It was uncomfortable and it had taken all of her energy and skill as a ten-year-old girl, but the job was now finished.
It was now time to talk to an old man...When she caught her breath!