April 4, 2005 – 02:00 (Sri Lanka Time)
Coralis stood and turned her back against the camera. She turned slightly the palm of her right hand toward Alejandro's cell door and her left one toward hers. Visualizing the locking mechanism and the bars surrounding it with her eyes shut, she directed a small amount of energy toward their cell doors. She wrapped them with a layer of polished iron and made sure they had the same colour as the rest of the bars.
"Let's do this!" said Coralis to Alejandro when she was done.
They pulled one of the crafted keys out of their underwear and inserted it into one of their ankle cuffs. Using a small amount of elemental magic, they made it fit the lock and freed their ankles out of their cuffs. Using the same crafted key, they did the same thing to remove the cuffs from their wrists. They made it look like they broke it and used a second one to uncuff their wrists.
They turned around and passed an arm through the bars to insert a third crafted key into the locking mechanism. Before leaving their cells, they looked at the camera by the main cell door, smiled and waved at it.
Alejandro stood underneath the ventilation trap and Coralis removed the coating she made around the bars before climbing on his shoulders to get into the ventilation system. Once her entire body was in the ventilation conduit, she shifted into Cheetah to easily turn around, and she shifted back to give him a hand.
He reached out to her hand and using a small amount of his wind elemental magic, he smoothly climbed up her arm and reached the opening of the vent. Coralis shifted back into Cheetah, and Alejandro shifted into his mouse form when his body entirely was in the ventilation conduit. Alejandro climbed on her back and she spelled her paws so she could walk through the conduits without making any sound.
She remembered the path to get to the storage room and easily made it there in less than 5 minutes. Knowing there was a camera in this room, she shifted back to her human form before jumping on the floor below the ventilation trap in the middle of the storage room.
"We need to be quick. Hopefully, our stuff is being stored together and not spread out to every corner of the room," said Coralis.
Coralis quickly located her jacket and found her set of keychains in it, but her wedding ring wasn't with it and she didn't want to leave without it, so she continued searching.
"Look at this," said Alejandro, pointing at a pile of documents sitting on a desk located at the back of the room. "They drew blood on all of their prisoners, including us. They found weird data on ours and some of the other prisoners, but it seems they don't know how to interpret it."
Coralis opened the drawers on either side of the desk, one by one.
"I think we should falsify them before they find someone who can interpret their data," said Coralis as she located her ring in the 3rd drawer she opened.
"Good idea," said Alejandro while making sure his back was against the camera before hovering his left hand over their blood report to change the data into what it should be if they were humans. "Good thing I studied human biology a few decades ago out of boredom. I'll also falsify the ones from the white witches. I can tell which ones are witches just by looking at the data."
Helping Alejandro to search for his jacket and their binds, Coralis found a small refrigerator with a clear door.
"Think you can also falsify the blood samples to reflect the changes you made to the blood reports?" said Coralis as Alejandro located his jacket.
"Definitively. I don't know where they put our binds and eyeglasses, but we need to be out of here before the night guards return to sit in the security room and check the live camera feed. I'm fine with leaving them behind," said Alejandro while putting on his jacket and slightly turning the palm of his left hand toward the refrigerator's door. "If they think they're what is giving us our power and are keeping them somewhere else to try something, they'll be sorely disappointed."
"Agreed. You got everything you need?"
"Yeah, it's time to go to our next stop," said Alejandro while positioning himself so that Coralis could climb on his shoulders like they'd done when leaving their cell block.
Cheetah made it to where the other prisoners were kept in 8 minutes. There were twelve people held within four cells. Cells there were larger than the ones Coralis and Alejandro were being imprisoned. Similar to their cell block, the coven's cells were lined up on one side, divided by silver bars and with a ventilation trap on the ceiling in the middle of the hallway.
Coralis removed the spell on her paws before they shifted back to their normal bodies before exiting through the ventilation trap. The loud noise made by their feet as they touched the ground woke up the prisoners. Alejandro brought the second finger of his left hand to his lips to indicate them to stay silent, while Coralis discreetly coated the bars around the cell doors' locks.
"The bars on their cells don't have the same silver density as ours had, but I coated them anyway" said Coralis.
They grabbed crafted key they used for their cuffs. Coralis went to the last cell while Alejandro went to the first one. They passed their cuff key to the people in them, pointing at their wrists and ankles, and worked on unlocking their cell doors using a blank crafted key.
Before moving on to the middle cells, they raised a hand in front of them to indicate to the prisoners to stay in their cells for now. They repeated the same process for the two middle cells, but using the newly crafted key they used on the previous two doors.
When done, Coralis climbed again on Alejandro's shoulders to return into the ventilation system and as Cheetah, she spelled her paws again and headed to the ventilation trap across the cell block's main door. Once again, she shifted back to her normal form before exiting it. With her right hand, she reached for a bunch of blank keys and made sure the camera above her saw the handful she held in it.
She grabbed one with her left hand and made it look like she was trying to unlock the deadlock, but failed. Using a different one, she went for the deadlock again and made it work. She repeated the same process on the handle's lock before opening the door but made it work after the third key.
She opened the door and once again, Coralis and Alejandro smiled and waved at the camera within the cell block before leaving. Alejandro signalled the prisoners to follow them in silence while Coralis discreetly spelled their feet so they wouldn't make a sound.
They walked down a barely lit long hallway and at the end of it, was a large metal door. Alejandro unlocked it and it opened up to a mouldy stairway going upward. After signalling the coven to wait, Coralis climbed it up to a landing and cracked open the door on the landing to let in a filament of light.
"This should be the basement level," said Coralis, looking up toward the next landing.
Alejandro climbed up, indicating the coven to follow him, and when he reached Coralis, he signalled them to wait before continuing to the next landing, where the stairway ended. He unlocked the door there, slightly opened it, and Coralis climbed up, followed by the coven.
She passed her head through the door.
"No one in sight," said Coralis, before passing through it.
Alejandro indicated the coven to wait before passing through the door and Coralis held it ajar. The emergency back exit was next to them and it had an alarm on it.