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A Final Escape
Part 1
For the past month, Ryclen had been playing a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the guards of a large town, which was under control of a lord who was after Ryclen's head. After a long and nerve-wracking few weeks of avoiding arrest, he finally slipping out of town inside a caravan, thanks to some informants. However, it became clear that one of his informants had betrayed him when, less than an hour after he escaped the town, soldiers bearing the lord's colors and insignia sprang out from the rocks and shot the driver of the caravan. Several knights on horses and men-at-arms on foot quickly rushed out to surround him. Even the lord's hunting dogs guarded him closely. At that moment, he knew it was finally the end of the line for him.
Part 2
Ryclen was taken to a prison tower on the coast under heavy guard, and was locked into what he was told was the vilest, lowest, and least maintained dungeon in the tower. He was also told that he was to be moved the next day, to the lord's castle for torture and eventual execution. However, a glimmer of hope appeared when the guard received a casket of fine but heavy ale, and spent half the night drinking and the other half sleeping. The guards had searched Ryclen, but did not find the lockpick in his hat, which he went to work with now. It wouldn't take him more than an hour, he estimated. But the true challenge lay ahead, getting out of the prison alive.
Part 3
Ryclen quietly reacquired his personal effects, and almost made it to the keep before a sentry spotted him. The walls and halls were soon teeming with soldiers, and Ryclen was chased by platoons until he had nowhere to run. With no other choice he made his wall to the top of the tower at the edge of the sea. At the end of the final hallway he could see a window, and beyond, a horizon of water and sky. With nowhere else to go he smashed through the window, clutching his hat, and down to the churning sea below.
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Submitted by: Ryclen
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