Where am I? That was my first thought.
It was dark, and it smelled weird. Like stagnant water. I was slumped forward when I woke up, but being held up by something. I couldn’t move. There was cold metal at my back and no matter how I struggled, I was stuck. Tied to a pipe? I tried to scream, but someone had put a gag in my mouth. I sobbed, it didn’t help, but the only thing I was doing was making my wrists and shoulders hurt by yanking so hard to free myself.
“So.. you’re awake” I recognized the voice, didn’t I? I couldn’t keep it straight. Was it someone I knew? “Please, keep struggling, it feeds us, your fear.” I jerked upright, trying to see who the voice belonged to, but I was suddenly blind folded and couldn’t see around it. My heart raced. I wanted to scream, ask the
