Rescue Mission

"We're here to rescue someone, someone from our organisation." Mika said. Adam shot her a warning glance, but she just shrugged. "What does it matter now? Those two Templar are bound to make a fuss about this, even if no one else noticed the flash bomb. The whole temple will be on high alert soon. Our only chance was to reach them before they knew we were coming."

"Are... are you heretics?" Winlay asked, thinking back to some of the dark stories she'd heard about heretical cults, tales of perverse rites, violent sacrifices and meals of flesh and blood.

Mika and Adam exchanged a glance. "Not... exactly," she said. "It doesn't matter, any way. We're going to have to leave them to the Inquisitors now."

Winlay gulped. The chilling tales she'd heard about the heretics were matched by the stories of what the inquisitors did to their victims. "Maybe... maybe not..." she said tentatively.

"What do you mean?" Adam asked.

"Well... the Templar don't know where we've landed, or what you're doing here. So, no one will be alerting the guards on the prison for a while. And as we're right near it, so you may have time..."

Mika grabbed her and kissed her again, making her blush brighter. "Winlay, that's brilliant. Adam, we have to try."

He nodded. "Winlay, you go back to the dormitory, and-"

"No," Winlay said, surprised at how forceful her voice was. "I have to go with you. I need to know I'm doing the right thing by not reporting you."

"It's to dangerous-" Adam began, but Mika cut him off.

"She's right. I'd want to know in her place."

Adam sighed irritably. "Alright. Move quickly. And quietly."

They slunk through the bushes. When they reached the door, they saw two Templar standing guard. Mika put a finger on her lips, and grinned naughtily. Then, to Winlay's shock, she slipped out of her robe for the second time that day. Once again clad in her underwear, she ran across the path to the prison. The Templar, seeing a beautiful, scantily clad girl rush past, hurried after her. For a moment, Winlay's heart stopped at the thought of what they might do to her, but a minute later, she appeared out of the undergrowth again.

"I circled round and lost them," she whispered, pulling her robe back on. "Come on."

Once they entered the prison, Adam took the lead, taking them past rows of barred doors and down flights of stairs. Winlay wondered how he knew its layout so well. She tried to ignore the disturbing sounds that drifted from the cells.

Finaly, as they approached the door at the bottom of the underground complex, she began to hear muffled cries from within. The door was open a crack, and the three of crept to it and looked into the chamber beyond. What she saw shocked Winlay to the core.