Chapter Eight
It took about a week for us to gather the necessary information for the escape plan. That didn’t sound like a long time, but I couldn’t get all of the information from Ivan and Rime that I wanted in one go, because the guards suddenly started to separate any groups of prisoners who stood around talking with each other for what they considered to be too long. Thus, the three of us could only share information in small, bite-sized pieces every now and then; a fact here, a fact there, a warning about this particular security system here, and so on. It didn’t help that I had to memorize all of it, because the guards didn’t provide us with pen and paper or anything else we could use to write. Ivan told me that the reason writing utensils were not given to prisoners was because of
