Akemi Miyano sat on the floor and took a moment to catch her breath as the pain in her body gradually subsided. She moved her limbs and realized that her current strength was no longer different from that of a seven- or eight-year-old child. At that moment, she felt a sudden flash of gratitude that she had eaten well during the past few days of confinement; though her strength was gone, she did not feel weak.
She tiptoed over to sort through her clothes, found a few suitable garments, stuffed them with pillows to create a human-shaped dummy.
She opened the window, placed the dummy right by the sill, and rigged up a simple mechanism. By morning, anyone from The Organization who opened the door would witness the exact moment "she" plunged from the window.
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