Her lips spread in a wolfish grin. "Are you aware how snakes eat their food?"
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Maahes opened his mouth to add to the conversation, but, before he could even utter a word, a group of guards appeared in the doorway to signify that the meal was over. He immediately closed his mouth. These ones looked a bit more intimidating than the ones that had come before them - they were likely sent to deal with any possible chaos that occurred when a group of prisoners left the cafeteria.
And Maahes definitely didn't like how eager they looked at thought of harming their prisoners.
Kazimir's gaze shot over to the guards accusingly. The meal was over? The meal was never over so soon. No... they must've been watching them. They must've suspected them of plotting an escape plan. This was sabotage.
Kazimir balled his fists on the table as other prisoners reluctantly began to get up, allowing themselves to be herded out into the halls.
He didn't even get to finish his meal.
"G** f***ing d*****," he cursed. "Those s***heads would come."
She unhinged her jaw and dumped the rest of the meal down her throat, as one does, and joined the rest of them as she gave Kazimir and Leo another sly smile, a wink, and a wave. "See you around, boys."
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
"Where are y-" Maahes started to say, only to fall silent a few seconds later.
The guards were coming in their direction.
Maahes hurried to get to his feet to leave the cafeteria, but he didn't want to leave Kazimir behind to deal with whatever trouble followed their appearance. At the risk of ruining his reputation of being someone good who had no interest in causing trouble, he stood by Kazimir's spot.
The guards began to fan out across the room, coming up to the prisoners who were still eating, or trying to hurriedly shove food in their face to force them out. Plates and food were slapped out of prisoner's hands as they were yanked out of their seats and escorted out of the dining hall. Kazimir's dark brown eyes zeroed in on the two guards approaching him and Maahes, challenging them with his gaze. His anger began to rise as a quick-growing flame in his chest, and he took another bite of his food spitefully.
"Mealtime's over, inmate," the large, four-armed alien guard barked.
Kazimir maintained eye contact and took another bite. The guard reached for Kazimir's plate with one of his arms but Kazimir swiped it away, quickly welcoming the wrath of the guard. As he was yanked up by the collar of his bright yellow uniform he smiled and threw his legs up in the air, wrapping them around the guard's waist as he threw his weight into them, causing them to topple to the ground. Just as he was about to slam his head into the guard's skull, he felt two cold cuffs link around his hands, magnetically drawing his arms together behind him. For a few brief seconds, he fought it, trying to tear his hands apart, but he wasn't able to. As the guard beneath him started to sit up, he decided to follow through with his original plan.
He head-butted the guy.
All that ended up doing was give him a splitting headache, and seconds later, him ending up on the floor with a foot stomping on his skull to emphasize it. His ears started ringing and all he was able to see was Leo's feet that were out of focus.
"YA DAMN RIGHT I'M GONNA FINISH MY ME-," he shouted, having no grid for how loud he was being.
He received a swift kick to his gut, cutting his outburst short.
His eyes widened with horror when he saw what they were putting Kazimir threw. Part of him wanted to fight back and defend his friend from further hurt, but the other part of him knew that he needed to stay on the prison's good side if he wanted to escape from this place-
Wait.
No, he didn't. He was starting to come up with a plan. It was probably the most risky plan he had ever come up with, and he knew that Kaz was going to hate him for it afterwards. But this was the perfect opportunity to start their escape attempt, and he'd be stupid not to take it. After all, the best way to slip away was to no longer be a prisoner, and there was only one way he could manage that.
He'd have to fake his death.
"Leave him alone," he said, taking a bold step forward. He tried to look as intimidating as he possibly could - they needed to see him as a threat. "Let him finish his meal, and stop hurting him."
The more humanoid guard who was unoccupied with Kazimir looked over at Leo with a pointed glare.
"Get out of here, inmate," she barked, holding out an energized weapon that began to spark around the tip. "Or you'll end up just like him," she said as she pointed down at Kazimir.
"Just go-!" Kazimir started, before the female guard kicked him again, causing Kazimir to grunt.
He didn't move. It was going to hurt - a lot - but he needed to sustain injuries that a human, or other humanoid creatures, would die from. A blow to the side from a weapon like that would the perfect way to fake his own death.
Apophis looped back around and came up behind the guard, eyes beginning to take on an unearthly glow as she snuck up behind him and opened her mouth. Her teeth became more pointed and slender as she readied to bite him.
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
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