She soon became all too aware at what was at her feet. It was a body. Someone else had been chained up and left for dead. But was he or she dead? And who was it?
Emma nearly choked. Leaning back against the wall, she looked upwards for a second, trying to get some air into her lungs that wasn’t full of that foul smell.
Trying to take a deeper breath before she returned her attention to the body on the ground, Emma leaned forward and moved her hands across the person until she stopped at their wrist. Lifting the arm, she closed her eyes and waited, hoping to find some semblance of life. Some tiny movement. But she could feel nothing. So she leaned forward and very carefully put her head on their chest, hoping that there would at least be a heartbeat, even if it was a faint one. But she co
