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This Means War

"Ok, good idea." I said with a nod. "That'll give us a chance to see who's with us or not. I wonder how many people we can convince to leave with us. The more the better probably, it's probably be harder to get out of here quietly, but we'd sure last longer that way."

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"Hopefully he's not in tonight, maybe we should go at dinner time, might be safer if we go when no one is around to see us." I suggested as I caught a glimpse of the fence through some of the trees ahead. "We can talk to others before then as well, the more people we can trust who are on our side the better."

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"I like the idea of becoming forest people, sounds compelling." I said with a grin. "But seriously, we should find a map. Maybe the General- well ex-general- has one in his office? We could sneak in there at some point and take it... I'm sure he won't mind, seeing as his room was turned through this morning, he probably won't even notice it's missing."

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I snorted at Daisy's words as we walked around another old storeroom. "You know, if we do escape, where do we go? We should have some sort of destination, I don't want to be wandering around out there any longer than I have too." I said glancing at her. It wasn't far now till we hit the fence, from there we just had to follow it until we found the artillery shed.

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I nodded and led the way to the fence. “If it’s safe then we should figure out a time to leave. They guard back there said he thought the girl I was pretending to meet was smart, that she knew the times that they patrolled and didn't. It’s supposed to be clear right now. So we could either figure it out or get back there tomorrow morning about this time and make a break for it. That could give us more time to get sorted and figure out who we can trust to bring with us.”

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"Relax Daisy. We can go and check it out now if you want, just to make sure." I suggested taking a step in the direction he had told me. "He told me cause he was an idiot and thought I was going there to meet a girl. Didn't want me to miss out or anything. He also said that there wasn't enough guards to go around to always be patrolling the area, seemed pretty genuine to me. And all three guards were basically saying the same thing anyway."

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I took a deep breath before I started speaking, trying to calm myself down. We would figure this out. I knew how to get out of here, we just needed a plan and straight minds.
“Okay," I began, "so I managed to find out that there’s an artillery unit here. Not a very big one by the sounds of it, but it’s not often patrolled, so before we leave we can grab a few weapons and ammo, get us some protection before we up and leave. And we do that by climbing through a hole in a fence on the western fence line. He said it’s behind a large bush a few feet away from the artillery shed. Apparently it’s only known about by some of the younger soldiers, it’s a good spot for them to hook up privately. It leads out into the forest."

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I shook my head slowly, trying to retain all of this information.
“Daisy, even if the other camp does show up in time, how will they know who’s who? We’ll all be rounded up, who knows what they could do… We need to get out of here.” I said looking her in the eyes. “And I know how. We’ll have to at least warn some of the others, but it’ll be hard to know who’s trustworthy or not, we could tell Penelope, Luke and Christy. We can trust them right?” I started rambling, more from nerves than anything, trying to figure out how we could do this and live.

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I stopped walking and stared at Daisy, my mouth hanging open. "Wait... You're kidding me right? That's insane, how? Oh my god, we've got to get out of here." I mumbled suddenly searching the surrounding are for anyone who could be listening to us.
"How did he find it out? Shit. What do we do?" I asked, the situation now seeming more out of control than ever.

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I spun around, looking for the source of the voice when I noticed Daisy running over to me.
“Hey! How’d it go, what did you find out? You’ll never believe what one of those idiots told me.” I said once she was close enough. I was keen to know if she’d found anything, if that guy had any information that could help us make sense of this whole situation, I wanted to know.