It had been days since Blaze had come down to the cells and beaten me, I was starting to worry that something had happened to scupper the plan to get us out. Eli had also stayed away, and though I tried to keep the girls spirits up, muttering through the bars to Lily that Eli was just staying away to avoid suspicion of our plan to escape. We sat in our cells silently until the guards packed up and left us for the day, stomping up the steps followed by one of Lily’s nightly goodbyes. ‘See you in the morning scuz buckets! Hope you don’t choke on your drool in the night’ she called out loudly as Jayden and I chuckled. ‘Brandon?’ Jayden called out softly sliding off my bed I quickly sat down next to our wall, resting my forehead against it as I replied, ‘yes?’ ‘I . . uh . . I just wanted

