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"To freedom," Audrey repeats, placing her hand in his as cold night air washes over them. She breathes in deeply, reveling in the familiar scents of trees and dirt and sweet blooming wildflowers. If she had counted the days correctly, it should be early spring - chilly enough to be uncomfortable but not truly dangerous.

Stepping forward onto the concrete path, she pulls Tae's small frame from the doorway and into the open air, a wide grin spreading across her lips. Audrey doesn't dare speak yet, even though she wants to. She'll have to tell him the stories later, show him the flowers and their colorful petals collecting dew, point out the moths circling the lights that line the roadways, and maybe even catch a drowsy toad or a stray cat for him to hold.

It wouldn't take them long to get back to her house - or, at least, the drive had seemed short - but she would make the most of it, filling him in on everything he had missed living so long in that horrid building.

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“I can control them as long as I want,” Audrey answers, “but if I hold them one way more than a second or two, they’ll definitely notice. I can’t turn them off or anything either. I just move them. I know the pattern though. I think I can get us out.”

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Audrey blinks rapidly at the sudden appearance of her friend, his firm grasp on his shoulder, and the onslaught of a swirling colorful aura awash in so many warring emotions. She sees fear most of all - pitch black like the shadows where monsters hide. Fake monsters, anyway. They both knew real monsters walked amongst everyone else, just as awash in bright sunlight, almost indistinguishable.

“What?” she gasps. “Why? How?”

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Audrey nods, thin lips sealing shut as she turns her attention to the single door separating them from the rest of the hall. She pries it open, peeking around the corner to catch a hint of a purplish aura as the figure rounds the far corner, but it disappears before she can even bring it fully into focus. Either way, they were going in the opposite direction. By the time their guard noticed they were missing, they would be long gone.

Waving Tae forward, Audrey ducks from the room and pads silently down the hallway. She wasn’t exactly dressed for an escape, barefoot and in the standard issue pajamas, but that didn’t matter either. Her clothes would be waiting for her when she got home along with her own bed, her shelf of her favorite books, and her beloved stuffed bunny. There would be stuff for Tae, too, of course. He could borrow whatever she had until they could get him his own stuff but as soon as she told her parents what was really going on here, they wouldn’t mind keeping Tae too. They would surely welcome them both with open arms. Surely.

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Audrey had learned a long time ago to trust Tae and his dreams, so she doesn’t doubt him. She just doubts their ability to escape. They were just kids and there were so many things standing in their way. Though, she supposes she gets around the halls easily enough. Maybe the front gate won’t be that much different.

“Okay,” she says with a few brisk nods. “Okay. We’ll go.”

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