Opaque cackled, a smug grin on her face as she watched bits of the recording. She always seemed to rewind back to her favorite part. It sent her into overdrive when Riz called her a 'twisted woman'. "Oh ho ho, they think they can get away that easily? Silly, silly boys. They'll learn, yes they will. This seems fun, I'll play along."

She clapped her hands, nothing moments, a servant guard stood near her, hands clasped cleanly behind her back. "Ma'am?"

"Get me some more wine, please," she thrusted her glass at the woman, waiting until she was out of sight to rewind her surveillance tape once more. "This will be oh so exciting! The dahlings won't know what hit them!"

Opaque wasn't human, she didn't physically need sleep; however she did usually drink wine until she was in a stupor. She'd be too out of it to be of much use, so she would laze until it was time for a new day to start. And that is exactly what she did, four bottles of red wine later, that is.

When she was finally up from her hazy state, it was back to normal. And that day, normal was putting backstabbing traitors in their place, and feeding them to the wolves. Metaphorically, that is. She didn't have lives wolves, unfortunately, but she did have a wide array of torture tools. A wicked grin sat on her face, and a wine glass in her hand.

"Fools." She turned on her surveillance, the raven was exactly where it needed to be, right outside the kids cell, somehow going unnoticed. She could easily hear all of the hushed conversation because of the bird's high quality audio.

Riz was the one speaking for most of the time. "Okay guys, are you all listening?" He asked in a hushed whisper. His reply was a series of head nods from the deeply confused children.

"Why are you whispering?" Jasper asked, his naturally loud voice booming through the corridor.

"Shh!" Riz scolded, eyeing the boy with a look so harsh the boy almost cowered behind Spade.

"Get off of me, you big weirdo!" Spade  grinned, punching Jasper in the arm, earning a small whimper from the boy. She laughed in response. "Haha! Toughen up, aha! I barely hit you!"

"All of you shut up before I shut you up, and listen!" Riz found himself shouting, something he never did. The tone of his voice set all the children straight. It made Kiyon cower in the corner, holding his knees to his chest.

"Please don't shout, it's not very nice... But I'm sure you didn't mean to. Right?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry, Ki. I got a bit carried away. Come here," Riz pulled the shaking boy into his arms, he'd flinched when he touched him, but softened up, practically laying in the man's lap.

"Now," he started again. "We're all getting out of here, tonight. I have a plan to get us all out of here safely, and I can't really explain it, I'll just say, Opaque knew the diamonds were fake long before you even found them. About three hundred years before, actually."

Spade was the first to speak up, unsurprisingly. "What the he-" she looked over at Kiyon, deciding to rephrase her sentence. "What're you talking about? This makes no sense."

Riz let out a loud sigh, shaking his head. "I know it doesn't make sense, and it won't make sense. But that's not the point here. I can explain this stuff... as best I can later. For now, listen up. Kiyon baby, do you how Kane brings you an extra portion of something an hour or two after dinner each night?"

"Hey!" Spade interjected. "We didn't get extra portions."

"Shut up, Spade," Amaya stated flatly. "We don't need the extra portions. He does."

"Yeah, I know! What about it?" Kiyon asked.

"Well," Riz started to answer. " He's not doing it tonight. He's going to tell Opaque about an escape that happened in a different section. While her attention is on that, I come and get you guys and we're leaving. Kane 'll catch up later." He looked over at spade, flashing a smile. "And yes, I'll bring food. Extra portions."

"How the hey diddly do you expect this to work?" Jasper leaned forward assertively, tapping his chin with his thick pointer finger. It made a smacking sound that Spade found irritating, she expressed this by slapping his hand and telling him to shut it. Jasper's only response was an eye roll.

Riz sighed, only noticing how chilly it was in the cell when his words made fog in the air. "It just will, there isnt time for this, it's almost time for everything to start happening."

Footsteps came from down the corridor, luckily, they were Kane's. "You ready ba- Riz?"

"Yeah, hurry, go. I'll run to the kitchen and by the time you get back we'll all be gone. Just meet us in the woods at our spot, okay?" Riz moved an almost sleeping Kiyon off of his lap so he could stand. "Everybody up."

Kane walked into the cell, picking up Kiyon under the arms and looking him straight in the face. "Kiyon, you listen to me okay? You be good, I know you're a good boy. You do whatever your Uncle Riz tells you to do okay? I'll see you in a bit, I love you." Kane spoke in that tone for one reason only, he wasn't entirely sure what things could happen, there was no telling what Opaque could do if she found out she had been tricked.

Kane set the boy down before walking out. "Bye, see you guys in a few."

Kane and Riz went their separate ways, Riz going towards the kitchen and Kane travelling to Opaque's lair. When he got there his heart began to race, with a shaky hand, he rapped on the door.

"Yes? Come in!" Opaque called from her throne, a sinister grin on her face, growing even wider when Kane walked all the way in. "Ah, Kane. Can't say I'm surprised to see you here, but I'm afraid we already caught the 'escaped prisoners'," her voice condescending and cruel, she'd only lifted her hand from her glass long enough to make finger quotes around the word 'prisoner'.

"How do yo-" Kane started. If Opaque knew that, than she must have known everything else, he tried to run to the door, but it was closed and somehow locked. Yanking on the door handle did little to budge it.

"A little too late for that I'm afraid. Come dahling, sit, enjoy the fun! It's just starting, haha!"

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