When the bridge between Celina's cuffs finally became thin enough under the stream of water that she could break apart them too much effort, she was proud to hear from Xia that it only took her an hour and a half to deal with both of their shackles.
"Gah, I'm so hungry right now," Celina complained, sagging in her sit on the creaky bed. The heavy metal bracelets still irritated her wrists, but it was so awesome to have a full range of movement in her hands that she didn't care. "We have to escape and get to the food, Xia."
"Then let's move, Lin-Lin. Get up, you have to pick up the lock."
Xia's hand reached for Celina's arm and pulled her up. Under Xia's guidance, Celina slowly walked through oppressing darkness towards the door and searched for the keyhole with her fingers.
"What now? I guess I can force water to take the form of a key, but I don't know how the key looked." Now that they were close to the door again, Celina lowered her voice just in case.
