After Avery and Jasmine had gotten a good distance away from the warehouse, the two of them stopped and waited for the others to et up with them.
Both of them were breathing heavily and looked sick because of the act they had just put on. While they had not incurred any physical damage, it had certainly brough them no small amount of ntal distress.
They had needed to act like they were absolutely depraved to sell the act. In the heat of the mont right when Kasandra and Grito were coming out of the vent, Avery realized that the guard that had approached them was getting suspicious and he had done sothing horrible to Jasmine.
She had played along, but just rembering it made him feel like throwing up.
"Never again. I'd rather just start shooting than have to do sothing like that another ti." Avery said, his expression one of utter disgust.
"I know it was my idea, but I think I agree. That was far worse than I thought it would be."
Jasmine looked completely ashad of herself. Sure, their tactic had been effective, but it had required doing sothing that crossed over the line of what she was comfortable with. She was far from being so chaste maiden but showing off her body to so many people like that was beyond unsettling. And the way Avery had been forced to act sickened her. It was far removed from how he normally was and the man she fell in love with.
"I don't know, I thought that it was pretty funny. When I first saw the two of you, I almost burst out laughing and gave myself away."
Kasandra wore a big smirk as she rounded the corner and t back up with Avery and Jasmine. She had seen their entire distraction, and it was certainly amusing to have watched the two of them acting completely different from normal.
"How about next ti you take my role then." Jasmine responded bitterly.
"Oh no, I don't think I can replace Avery's babydoll."
Kasandra's snarky reply had both Avery and Jasmine's face burning bright red as they were forced to relieve what they had just done.
Still, their back and forth bickering at the very least helped Avery and Jasmine to forget how disgusted they had been feeling. Being a bit angry and frustrated at being teased was a lot easier to deal with.
"I get that the three of you are close but now is not the ti for this. You can flirt later. We need to get going." Ezra said, walking into view.
"Yeah, you're right. But why is Grito hanging off your back?"
Avery was perplexed to see a small head popping up over Ezra's shoulder. For so reason, Grito was clinging to him.
"We need to hurry and get out of here, and as I'm sure you know, he's not able to keep up with us when we're really moving."
"Plus, I have a far better vantage point from up here. I can keep a look out for any pursuers." Grito added.
Deciding to simply accept the explanations given to him, Avery took the lead and started heading back to the hangar where their ships were waiting. It was ti for them to et back up with Kaiden and go through what they had found.
…
"He's really dead."
"Yeah. The sick bastard he works for put this in his head." Kaiden said, pulling out a clear container that held so sort of device in it."
After getting back to the hangar, their group of six t back on the Dauntless to discuss things.
Unfortunately, Kaiden's news ca as a shock to all of them and was far from good.
The prisoner they had taken ended up dying because he was about to spill intel on his boss. It was certainly a twisted way to keep people in line, but it had been effective.
Just before Kaiden was able to figure out who those private soldiers worked for, the man had been racked with imnse pain and died soon after.
"This is just great. But at least we got the communication information from their base. With it we should be able to trace it back to where Grito's uncle is being held."
"Hey, just because the guy died before telling who his boss is, doesn't an that I didn't get any useful information." Kaiden interjected.
Quickly he relayed what he had learned, and it was both shocking and infuriating.
"So, their boss, lord, or whatever they call him, gives rcenaries off the books jobs and then kidnaps them. That's just down right…"
Avery beca so furious he could not even get the words out.
He was angry at the person behind everything and himself. The people that they had been fighting and even killed so of were being forced to do the bidding of a figure that had abducted and enslaved them.
Then there was the fact that these people were their peers. rcenaries just like them that had rotten luck and ended up tricked.
"To think that soone would do sothing like this." Jasmine said, an aghast expression on her face.
"It certainly is heinous, but I understand why it was done. rcenaries go missing all the ti, so no one is going to heavily investigate a few disciplines. A lot of them have decent skills and don't need much training to beco soldiers as well. For soone without any morals, its an easy way to build up their forces."
"Ezra, why are you saying sothing like that?" Avery said, his rage apparent.
He felt that Ezra sounded a bit too nonchalant as he was explaining things. They were rcenaries themselves. People like them were being targeted and forced to act as slave soldiers.
"I was just coming at it from a rational point of view. But don't get wrong, I find it despicable as well. I'm pissed off just like the rest of you. If I had my hands on the person behind this, I'd rip them apart right now."
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