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It was as dark as a room could get. The only source of light was the half an inch in diameter hole, from which the sunlight could peek. Sitting on the dusty floor, silently, while listening to the incomprehensible conversation of the mice. It had been months since both his eyes saw the sun together. Being in a room that was no more than 3 meters wide, was his life now. Surviving on raw meat of the dead mice and droplets of water that fell from the ceiling during rain. Drew was quite fortunate that it rained every few days or else he would be dead like the very others.
Drew wondered from time to time how many had gone through what he is going through. He also kept thinking of a way to get out. Giving up was not what he would do but at this point, he wondered if it was even worth it. Who knew if the people he cared about were even alive or if they cared about his comeback. But mostly he pondered if the people who locked him here died. It looked like he was left here to die rather than interrogated. All his life as a spy he thought that his end would be by getting discovered and being tortured to death during interrogation. That's what he was always prepared for and was told to be prepared for.
As his thoughts were clashing, he got up and peeked through the small hole. Drew saw the same sight that he saw every time. A dusty corridor with a window. Through the window, a vast overgrown and supposedly abandoned field could be seen. Though not much could be seen, enough to know that no one had been here for a very long time.
Removing his eye from the hole, he goes and lays down to the pile of human skeletons who now drew had considered as family. Because he knew his life would end like theirs. Who knew, these piles of bones were once their country's greatest spies, who are today considered heroes. He wondered that if he died would he also be considered a legend. But he knew better than this, he couldn't just give up. After all his mission is yet incomplete. Despite all those negative thoughts he had, he knew he was taught better in his tough training all those years.
Drew got up, grabbed a bone, and got back to breaking the hole. It wasn't much easy to break a wall with a human bone but he wasn't left with many options either. But like always the bone broke before the wall could get a crack.
Drew had gone through the whole place many times, but never did he find anything that could be useful. Thud! Drew looked around in a flash, slightly hoping someone came to get him out. But to his disappointment the mice were messing around and crashed the chair that was in the room, onto the pile of bones. 'mice!' drew thought, 'where do they always come from, pretty sure I am locked up for over a month' he continued, 'and there is just no way these wild creatures have been here since I was. There must be an opening big enough for them that I have missed'.
The day went and night came. Any inch of that three-meter room was not left to search but there were no new results except for the same. He wondered how was he even left inside, the room has no door. That's when he realized that there could be an opening from the top but due to the shortage of light, he could not see and the ceiling was too high to feel it. He grabbed the chair and climbed up but unfortunately, he was a few inches short. Drew got down and took hold of the longest bone he could find and got back on the chair. Upon moving the bone across the roof he felt something else rather than a trap door. That's when he realized, it was a camera. This whole time he was being monitored, no wonder nobody came to check on him.
Drew knew he had less time left, he had to get out fast. Or else he would be dead like the new family of his.
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