A female walked up to the door, her steps sounding on the floor in long confident strides. She reached the door and leaned her back against it. "Are you there?" she questioned with a serious tone.

"Yes," the person replied. The woman mentally sighed softly in relief, a flicker of a smile creeping onto her face.

"Good," she paused for a moment. "I think there might be a beneficial relationship here."

"Oh? How so?" the person responded in a cheeky tone.

"Don't be like that. You wouldn't have answered me if you didn't realize it yourself."

"Ha ha, yeah, you are most certainly right. So, what do you have in mind?" the man laughed softly.

"How about information for information?" she proposes to the person on the other side of the door.

"I like that, but what if we took it one more step further?" The man on the other side of the door was getting courageous and it seemed to the woman that there might be hope for this alliance. And so, she complied.

"Okay, I'm listening."

"What if we planned to be the last two standing? I protect you from where I am and you do the same for me. And when it is just us, we rebel. We make sure that we both come out alive."

"If it were that simple, all one hundred of us would just rebel and go out to live freely," she snorted at the idea.

"Well, let's just worry about that when we get there. For now, information for information, protection for protection, and in the end, it's just us. How about it?"

She thought for a moment and then let out a soft laugh. "I like it. Good. I'm glad that this could work out." The woman then walked away with a new safety net underneath her.