Before I begin, I would like to say that I did not come up with this story, I was told it by a friend. I do not know if they came up with it either, so if you recognize it please tell me the author so I can display who originally wrote it. Also I may have changed a few things
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The fox, despite struggling was thrown into the cell. He knew it was underground, but he didn't know where. the guards removed his blindfold, and saw the inside of his cell. It was a simple stone room with no decorations, the front was a wall of iron bars with a small door on the side.
The guards occasionally bet outside, although no words were spoken, money exchanged hands. food was passed into the cell daily, along with water, neither of high quality. A chamberpot was not provided, instead there was a grate in the corner, securely in the stone, which lead through pipes into the sewer.
The fox waited for 10 days for someone to tell him what he was accused of. the fox knew he did not do anything wrong, but tried to think of anyone he had made an enemy of. After awhile he gave up. He knew no one was coming to see him, so he worked for escape.
He searched the cell for weaknesses. He wanted to pick the door's lock, but he had nothing on him to do so. he tried banging on the iron bars, but they were all solid. He went for the grate leading to the sewer pipes, tearing at it, shaking it with all his mite.
"ha ha ha!" a guard laughed. They were watching him try and escape and they only laughed?! This angered the fox. he redoubled his efforts to escape.
after days of searching, he found something. a block was loose in the wall, almost as if it were meant to come out. He pulled on it, and it slid out perfectly. Behind the stone block was a tunnel, and a message carved perfectly into the wall.
It said ~Hello. We write this message in hopes that you will follow in out footsteps and go through this tunnel that we made to escape! It took many people to dig this, some of whome did not make it. Take a lamp or torch with you, and good luck.~
The fox almost yelled in joy! he was so happy, but he knew the guards would kill him if they knew that the tunnel existed.
He grabbed the candle the guards had left to keep him company at night, and set off through the tunnel, closing the entrance behind him. He crawled, and crawled for what felt like hours. his candle was getting low. he smelt something up ahead, but he couldn't place what it was.
Suddenly he fell! the tunnel had ended and opened up into a dark pit. There were skeletons of hundreds of people, some of which had some flesh left on their bones.
Carved crudely on the wall of the pit was "They
lied to us!"
the story could end there or,
The guards saw his cell empty, and the one who had lost much of his money said, "ha! I knew it, they always find it in the end, pay up!"
