Kaori (will post delilah later)
Click, click, click… The deadening sounds of footsteps neared the steel doors of Alfon’s torture room. A small smile (that would be invisible under a year of solitary confinement) fled to Kaori’s lips in hopes purely for Alfons being rid of the mechanical rat. The hard, grimy faces of the guards that appeared after the door was open were not of help, or an act of kindness, they were much too…unsettling to be of that nature.
With her free hand loose next to her side, she drew a knife from its sheath that would be next to the table, pointing it to the guards who’d be marching forwards regardless, with a snicker.
“A-alfons….they’re…..coming.” They quickly gained ground, all but one of them attending to Alfons and the rat. She’d been mistaken- they were there to help them but another idea was reflected when one, with an outstretched arm, reached for Kaori’s shoulder. She didn’t flinch or bat a nervous eye underneath dark and thick eyelashes merely stiffened the arm that would plunge the knife into the hand of the solider. “ Not all freeze under the fear of death.” She spat, leaving the knife where it was.
She didn’t get to see too much of the aftermath of the stabbed guard and Alfons. When she heard another ‘click click’, she knew that belong to a gun, held by another guard behind her who broke away from Alfon’s group to attend to his friend. They began escorting her out of the room, not before forcing her forwards with the tip of the gun in between her shoulder blades. Kaori could feel the circular metal, ready to shoot if she had tried anything else crazy, so she solemnly obligated to move forward without a glance to Alfons. The backs of guards with a tailored insignia of guards were blocking her view anyway.
On the way out to the courtyard, she didn’t spare a glance or a word with any of the guards who formed a semi-circle around her. What had this torture session done? Took away the constant, painful reminder of her friends who wouldn’t be as fortunate to keep their lives and avoid the direct torture. She took in a breath of the stale air that would hang like the feeling of death in a graveyard. It was all too much home, of the cell she thought she was going back to before they took a different turn. This path had light- sunlight! Even thorough the windows, the little that would leak through would warm her cheeks. She showed no emotion, but secretly felt hope inside in the change of scenery.
Kaori was one among many pushed into the cage. All of these prisoners looked the same to her, wearing the same ragged clothes she wore. One face stuck out to her, and with a rush of adrenaline and a double take. She couldn’t leave time to process this face, she just walked over to them stiffly and cautiously like they could disappear if she chased them away by moving too fast.
Kain?!?! KAIN! She screamed mentally. Only the widening of her eyes would tell of her excitement, as if the frown she had when she stabbed the guard was engraved on her face. He hadn’t notice her yet, coming up behind him, and from afar, she recognized another face just coming out of what seemed to be a horrible dream. This face drew sounds of concern to her lips, causing the composure she had talking Alfons to melt away quicker than dropping ice into lava. “D-Daniel?” She peeped with a wave a nausea at his poor sewed wounds that still showed raw skin beneath. She was not disgusted with his condition, rather the fact that he was the one to be tortured….by Kain, who was on his knees hovering over the recovering boy. She exploded, her foot connecting with the lycan’s side, digging upwards into his gut if he wasn’t quick to move. She grunted when her body responded with a flash of pain as her hair swept over her eyes.
Anger. Thought. Than relief. She dropped down to her knees next to where Kain would be, her fingers touching the sand beneath her knees limply. “You guys are alive….” She rasped under a whisper, her eyes touching every centimeter of Daniel’s face. His lips, cheekbones, eyes…. Kaori never realized how much of a toll this place could take on anyone, or herself. She was never the one to show public affection, but this was an exception. She leaned over him closely, carefully avoiding his wounds and touching her cheek to his shoulder, her hands closing gently around them and her eyes glued on a blade of grass. Every time the wind would blow a little, strands of her hairs would rise and tickle his lower cheeks and neck. Her eyes closed. With a deep breath and a time of silence, she spook. “Kain, Alfons is right behind me.”