Take Her Away

The days continued to drag on in the dim and overehelming darkness of the dungeon, and seeing as I had all.but bathed in the sunlight the other day my reality was shattered.

The isolation and lack of light was beginning to wear on me even more, and I felt myself slipping into a phase of lethargy.

However, amidst the despair I held then, a brief ray of hope shone through one fateful day. It was during one of our brief conversations that Wally, my only friend in this dark place, got some joyful, unexpected news.

It was a morning like any other, and I was tired before the day even began. The day before, we had been joking about release, and making comments on what to do if we were released before the other, and it had been easy to laugh about it, sinv we thought neither of us would leave anytime soon.

A guard approached our cells, his footsteps echoing eerily in the corridor.

Wally, who had struck up a friendship with one of the guards through their brief interactions, had been hande