Extend the Story - Add a Room

Some people glance in your direction, but they're all too frightened to try anything risky. Everyone just mills around, looking at their feet or staring off into space. Everyone, that is, except for the woman who spoke up in the first place. She walks over and introduces herself.

"I'm Ki," she says. "Can you believe everyone else? Ugh! I'm glad at least you're with me, I don't know what I could do by myself. With the two of us, though, we should be able to come up with something!"

She lets this all out rather fast. You try to formulate a response.


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From here on, the story is up to you, the reader! Choose well, and be creative...

"I have an idea. You pretend to be sick, and I'll call the guard. I'll take him by surprise and jump him! Then we'll all be in this together, no matter what anyone else wants or says."