Trick the Guards

‘Boys, I really need to go for a wee.’ This was really as far as Emily’s escape plan stretched at the moment. She was hoping to persuade them to free her arms, and after that she would be improvising.

‘Okay, love,’ the guard on the left replied. ‘Geoff, I’ll just be a minute. Follow me.’

His armour clanked noisily as he led the prisoner behind the large white tent to the toilet and shower block. Pausing at the bottom of the steps leading up to the temporary building he inspected Negana’s neck brace, finding a pin holding the two sides of the bar together. With this removed he opened it up and she was free. ‘Thanks,’ she smiled at him as she rubbed her wrists then padded up the steps.

This one was exactly the same as the one behind the Saviours Command Tent, even down to the rack of hair dryers. There was a little window at head height on the back wall which Emily knew was her escape route. Looking outside the floor seemed quite a long way down, probably eight or nine feet. She looked around. There was a metal waste bin next to the door, and placed under the window it gave her enough of a step up to climb through. She didn’t want to fall, so once her torso was outside she twisted to grip onto the roof just above in order to pull her legs out. Immediately she felt her skirt pulling down over her bottom. ‘Of course,’ she thought, ‘this was all going too easily.’ The waistband was snagged on the clip for holding the window closed. She had to decide quickly, the worst thing that could happen was to get tangled up and fall to the ground, so she ditched the skirt and allowed her legs to hang down the outside of the wall. She lowered herself to the window frame and reached in to retrieve the skirt, but it was not there. ‘Bollocks,’ she hissed. Of course, without her bottom tugging on it from this side it had simply fallen back in and was probably sitting on top of the metal bin.

She dropped to the floor, landing safely. It was only a couple of feet to fall from her position. Immediately she ran, vaulting over the little perimeter fence and plunging into the woodland beyond.