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The pain.
And… nothing.
Panic seemed to start atmospherically at first, a charge in the air around me that started to choke out the oxygen, making a suffocating sensation flood me. My heartbeat started to beat a wild, erratic drum in my chest, so strong and overwhelming that I couldn’t think of anything else but the sensation for a long second.
Until I tried to lift my arms, so I could press my hand to my chest. And found my wrists bound together.
My skin prickled, a cold sensation like icy fingertips trailing over me, leaving a clammy bath in its wake.
My wrists were bound.
Almost at once, I realized that there was something over my mouth as well.
I was bound and gagged.
Bound and gagged.
Like in a freaking action movie.
You know the one. Where the girl finds her strength in the chaos, breaks out of her binds, and goes on a revenge mission to destroy her attackers.
The problem was, I wasn’t that girl.
I’d neverbethat girl.
My thoughts unraveled then, leaving nothing but frayed edges of rationality. I was assaulted by a million distinct catastrophic possibilities, each more irrational than the last, my mind hijacked by chaos.
Time warped as I struggled to gain control of my own thoughts, to force them to stop swirling, to allow me to catch on to one, singular, logical thought.
I struggled for breath as a vice tightened around my chest.
I sucked in air again through my nose, pulling it in until my chest burned, then slowly releasing it. Once, twice, three times.
Time warped. Seconds stretched into eternities.
But I kept breathing.
And, eventually, little by little, the panic started to recede.
My pulse slowed. My mind stopped spinning.
I felt utterly drained from fighting with my own mind.
But there was no time for exhaustion.
I had to think now that it was possible again.
I’d been hit.
I’d been… taken.
I’d been gagged and bound.
I was sure that Detroit would look for me.
The problem was, I had no idea where Detroit was. How long he would be gone. If anyone else would notice my absence until he returned at some unknown time in the future.
I couldn’t rely on him.
