I woke up, my eyes snapping open, and I was still in the cell. I looked around and so was everyone else. I guess one desperate prayer to the Moon Goddess wasn’t enough to get us out of here. What was I even expecting anyway? We only had each other to rely on, not some mysterious force.
I scanned the room again and realized I was the only one awake, which was odd because I usually woke up to someone staring at me or making a comment of some sort.
My eyes naturally found the gates, assessing the dents over and over until I finally got up and ran my hands over the bent bars. After a while, I pulled my hands back with a small sigh. We had taken over a week just to bend three bars. How many more days would it take to finally free ourselves from this prison? Months? Years?
At this point, I wa
