I didn't know when I fell asleep. There was so many things in my mind. I saw nightmares but they were all vauge. When I was struggling with myself to wake up One hundread thirty started to call out my name.
"Aayat wake up, they will be here any moment. Wake up."
I opened my eyes. "What happened? Why are you so scared?" I asked her when I was trying to get up.
"Aayat, last night was emperor's hunting night. They will be here with that corpse anytime. If they see you sleeping, they will beat you."
I looked around. The environment was very suffocating. Everyone seemed to expect something bad, disgusting yet they had nothing to do. I arrived here last night ,but not a single person talked to me except One hundread thirty. They are not even curious about anything. Maybe they lost the ability to be curious.They were not human anymore. They were some lifeless statue. I must appriciate those who made them like that. The did it wonderfully. This whole weapon factory was a masterpiece of torture.
I decided to talk to them myself. When I was about to talk to them the door opened. Two people entered in the room. They threw something on the ground. I was sitting far . So I didn't see clearly. I stood up to go and see but one hundread thirty grabbed my hand."Don't go.You won't be able to tolerate it." I shook her hand off my hand. I went there .
The scene was no less than a horror movie scene. Two corpse, without head. They were stabbed so many times that they were literally grinded. Their heads were sitting beside them. They were so disfigured that they couldn't be idendified as human anymore.The blood stench was so heavy, disgusting. I threw up everything on spot. Luckily there was not much thing in my stomach so I could only throw up gastric juice.
" She seems to be a new slave. " One of them said. I was hearing but not understanding anything. I was busy holding a grip of myself. They started doing their job. They hung those corpse for everyone to see. After they left One hundread thirty came to me.
"Are you alright? Why you didn't listen to me?I asked you not to go . Let's go to that place. It's quite far from here. "
She helped me get up." Today I witnessed something they had been witnessing all their lifes. How did they endure it? " Those were the thoughts in my mind.
One hundread thirty gave me water to drink.After drinking that I was feeling better. "How are you feeling now?"
"Better. Does this happen always, every week?"
"Yes. I think we are lucky that he plays this game every week not every day. "
I was shocked to hear her reply. "Lucky? You say it's lucky? He is the emperor , he should be protecting his subjects not killing them. Even if they are slave how...how...?"
I lost my words after that. What I say is a nonsense to them considering what she told me last night.
"Our lives are valueless. We are doomed the moment we were born with black hair. You are talking now, but you can be up there next week."
I realised the reality heare. The whole thing was like russian roulette. If lucky live, if not even your corpse won't be intact.
"I will do something."
"Don't be foolish .What can you do? You will implicate us all and cause our death."
"Are you living now that you can die? I will at least do something about this corpse hanging. If I am alive I don't want to do see this every week. Also I don't want to die either. I still have a job to do. Before that I must overcome everything and stay alive."
One hundread thirty looked at me with confusion.
"Where do you get this confident? Who are you?"
"I don't know where I get this confident but I have to do something.I need your help."
She hesitated for sometime and finally said, "I don't know if I am doing right thing but I want to trust you. Ok, I will help you . What do you need?"
"Show me around this place."
"Ok. But we can only roam around in our slaves quarter. We can only go to the factory in the work time."
"Then let's go."
She showed me around the quarter. There was nothing much to see.
"There are many other halls like that. This is for young people. Old people are kept somewhere else. There is our water tank. No matter how cruel they are they provide us with enough water."
"Is there a water tank in every hall?"
"Yes. The water tank is connected with each other."
"That means you can contact with each other through this water tank, right?"
"No . It's connected but not that big to swim and go to other side. It's diameter is like this."
She showed me a circle with her hands. "It's big enough I think. Atleast a bottle can easily go through it."
"What is a bottle?"
"Nothing. We will talk about it later. Anyway you told me last night that there is a kind guard . Who is he?"
"Everyone calles him jacob. He is the only one who treats us a human. But he can't show it because of other guards.He tries to help us as long as it's safe."
" At least one human. Next time, I want to see him. I need to know how human rose up in this hell."
"Ok .Aayat there's nothing to see. Simetimes later we will have to go to work. Then you can see around more. Anyway what do you plan to do?"
"Tell me where can I get ropes? "
" You can get them outside. You are new here . They will assign you to a work today. You can get ropes there, if not I can bring them how long do you need?"
"Umm... hundread meter."
"What is meter?"
" leave it. Just bring me to the place.I will get it."
"Ok. Be careful anything you do."
"I understand."
I was assigned to laundry works after that. One hundread thirty is in the Cleaning . When I went to laundry I saw everyone working silently . It was the most disciplined team I had ever seen. Still there were guards whipping them for no reason. They were not making any sounds even after that. They were too used to it to make any sound. when I about to start my work, a women came with a cloth piece, "Wear it on your back. You will feel less pain."
Necessity is the mother of invention. They invented a way to endure this silently. The women went back to her job without saying another word. I couldn't even thank her.
I started my work. There were so many clothes to wash. I wasn't born with a silver spoon. So I knew how to do all of these. The work wasn't a problem. The problem was my left arm . The stitch was tingling. So as it was I couldn't use my all force. As a result I was whipped most in the entire day. At first it hurt. But gradually the pain became faint. They also know how to whip people without any bleeding. luckily I was wearing that cloth piece. Still my back was hurting. Maybe because it was my first time. I checked my back during lunchtime . There was no injury but it hurt. I didn't care those trivial thing because I need to do caculation for night. I will give them a surprise tonight. Those people had stayed here without any joyous ocassion for so long . Tonight will be the 'tit for tat' festival. I smiled enduring whipping when I imagined there face.