Nikkita heard the guards coming and cursed under her breath. There was no time to properly insure that the old man wouldn't talk so it was a windfall when he fell. Perhaps he wouldn't say anything if he still believed her to be a frightened young woman running away.
Gracefully she hurried down the steps, only slightly slipping twice as ash approached the old man at the bottom.
"You can't swim now and they might be able to help you," she said touching his shoulder as she ran by leaving hime with a sad and pained look over her shoulder. "Stay alive old man.." she said approaching the area where it was easiest to enter the water. The cold of the water nearly took her breath from her lungs, her flimsy prison grab giving her hardly any protection, but she swam out toward the far wall that the tide seemed to be coming from. Her hand on the wall she dove down hoping to find the opening on the first try. Trying to hide in the water in the cave with the guards there would be more difficult.
(Hel pme here I have no idea how deep or if there really is an exit under there she can find.)
Gracefully she hurried down the steps, only slightly slipping twice as ash approached the old man at the bottom.
"You can't swim now and they might be able to help you," she said touching his shoulder as she ran by leaving hime with a sad and pained look over her shoulder. "Stay alive old man.." she said approaching the area where it was easiest to enter the water. The cold of the water nearly took her breath from her lungs, her flimsy prison grab giving her hardly any protection, but she swam out toward the far wall that the tide seemed to be coming from. Her hand on the wall she dove down hoping to find the opening on the first try. Trying to hide in the water in the cave with the guards there would be more difficult.
(Hel pme here I have no idea how deep or if there really is an exit under there she can find.)