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Chapter 2 - The Plan

After three really bad days of working there, my urge for leaving this god awful planet grew even more. But I couldn't leave just like that, I needed a plan. A solid plan. "Alright people! Wake up! It's work time!", our 'warden' yelled and I 'woke up'. Well, I didn't sleep in the first place, partly because of my cellmate's snoring, but mostly because I was thinking. I knew it was almost impossible, but atleast I had a path, a goal, I couldn't say that about most of the people there. They had no goals in life, they ate, worked and when they became really old or physically unable to work, they were killed. I didn't want to end up like them, so I had to make a plan and get the hell out of here. I got up and my roommate was still sleeping. I didn't want him to get whipped and scream in pain all night, that's bad for my sleep, so I woke him up. Even though we were in the same cell, we didn't talk a lot. Well, he tried talk...

Chapter 1 - Branded

After countless days spent in misery, it was finally a nice day. I didn't have food, or shelter. I didn't even have a single penny in my pocket, but I was happy, and that's all that mattered. Happiness was something that I had not felt for a long ass time. You may think "Is this guy out of his mind? How can someone be happy in such crappy circumstances?" Well, happiness is very relative. Let me take you to a time where I had all the aforementioned things, but I was not happy at all. Let me take you 6 months prior to this.                 6 MONTHS AGO "Hey kid! Yes, you! Join the line or I will beat the living shit out of you." I looked up. Everyone else was standing in a straight line and there were guards all around us. I quickly moved and joined the queue. The boy standing in front of me was shivering, not of cold, but of fear. I wasn't shivering, but honestly, I was afraid too. We weren't afraid because they were going to do something ...