"Trespassing? Just let me go, then! I will remove myself from your land with haste. I promise." Anxiety pressed on her vocal cords and made her voice come out squeaky.
"I'm afraid I can't do that. You resisted arrest as well, so trespassing is not the only charge against you."
Nikola guffawed, and resisted letting the tears flowing in flood down her face. "I didn't resist arrest until you started chasing me-- what was I supposed to do?"
"What you are supposed to do now is come with me. Quietly."
Carefully, the guard peeled himself off of her and rose to his feet, and then bent down to gather up the metal chain attached to the manacles. While he was vulnerable and bent, she gave her wrists a swift yank and he fell forward, tumbling past her. She didn't waste time checking if he was okay, and instead she rocketed to her feet and broke into a sprint.
But it was futile.
Four more guards, all in garb similar to the one who had caught her, were so close that they just took the chain dangling from her wrists and gave her a stern look. One laughed aloud, assumedly at her attempt to escape. It was then that the tears broke past their fleshy gate and spilled down her cheeks.
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More hands grabbed the clunky metal chain, and it scraped loudly against the ground as they began to jerk her along. One of the men went to go help the one she had pulled over up, and then he joined in too, wrapping his hand around the lead with a grunt.