Page 139 of Sohut's Protection

She was too terrified of blowing their cover.

If they were stopped, it wasn’t just she that’d be in the shit. Sohut would be too and he’d almost been killed once already because of her.

As they reached the far side of the room and entered a corridor, Sohut picked up his pace and she all but trotted behind him like an obedient puppy.

“How do you know where you’re going?” she whispered into his back.

Sohut inhaled deeply. “I can smell the fresh air outside.”

Of course, his answer wouldn’t be a normal one and the thought made her smile into his back.

They moved through doors that opened and closed, passed guards that stopped to salute but said nothing otherwise.

Her heart almost fell out of her chest on each occasion they had to pass one of the gator-guards but they never once questioned why one of their masters was taking one of the slaves outside of the building.

She guessed that’s why Sohut had gotten the disguise of one of the bosses.

Soon, they reached a set of huge doors that looked like slate. They rose so high that she had to crane her neck to see the top.

“Master?” the voice of a gator-guard caught her ear and she realized there was a set of guards posted on a platform above them.

Beside them was a set of controls that she assumed controlled the massive doors.

Sohut stiffened as he came to a stop, his eyes on the door.

She could feel it too…freedom was beyond those doors.

“Master? You have ventured so far…alone?” The gator-guard glanced at his comrade, his yellow eye suspicious and she could tell they were wondering that the hell was going on.

“You dare to question me?” Sohut asked, turning his dark eyes on them and she could see them cower.

“N-no, Your Excellency,” one of them sputtered.

“Open the doors,” Sohut ordered and the guards glanced at each other again.

As one moved an arm toward the controls, he paused.

The two guards exchanged glances again before turning their yellow gazes on her and Sohut and when their eyes settled on her, she could feel something fall inside her.

“Phek…” she heard Sohut mutter low before sniffing the air. “I should’ve known this wouldn’t be easy.”

His eyes scanned the wall and she raised her head, trying to see what he was looking at.

It took her a while but then she saw it. A little speck of gray high up. It was moving down the wall so fast, it looked like a blur.

“Your Excellency,” one of the guards continued…

Cricking the bones in his neck, Sohut ignored the guard and began undressing to her wide-eyed horror.

Thrusting the white robe he was wearing toward her, he met her eyes. “Put this on.”

And then he was gone.

Her confusion was reflected on the guard’s faces as Sohut scaled the wall up to the platform.

How he did it, she did not know, but it was clear to the guards that something was very wrong because they both raised their weapons ready to fire.

But they didn’t get the chance to.

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