C97 The Rescue!

Then came the sound of stones shattering.

Before them lay a scene akin to a slaughterhouse.

It wasn't the 260 individuals, but rather a group of women, around a dozen or so, all confined within cages.

The women were in poor shape, sitting against the walls, their thoughts inscrutable.

They were covered in blood, as though they had just emerged from a pool of it