Gerlinde lay unmoving a few feet from her. She crawled toward her friend and tried to shake her awake. Gerlinde stirred and looked at Lotte through tormented eyes.
“Are you alright?” Lotte asked, although she knew the answer already. How could any woman be alright after what had just happened?
“I guess so…” Gerlinde’s feeble voice trembled.
“We need to get out of here.”
“What?” Gerlinde opened her eyes wide.
Lotte dropped her voice to a low whisper, “In their stupor they left the door unlocked. That’s our chance to escape.”
“That’s illegal. We’re prisoners of war.”
“So what?” Lotte put an unruly strand of her fiery red hair behind her ear. “What those men did was illegal, so we have every right to escape.”
“Alex, please…”
“I for one am not going to sit around and wait for this to
