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When she woke up, Danielle was in darkness. Her head spun as she regained her senses. She quickly realized that her hands and feet were bound painfully tightly with some sort of cord. Furthermore, she seemed to be crammed into some kind of container.
Using her bound hands, she felt around the container and determined that it was a box, metal was her best guess, about 3 feet on all sides. Her fingers located some small holes near the top, but could not find any handles or releases.
The entire time, there was a high pitched droning sound that she swore was familiar. Suddenly it hit her- AN AIRPLANE! She started screaming for help and kicking the top with her bound feet. She froze when she heard a loud hissing sound. Her eyes quickly got heavy and she drifted off to sleep.
The next time she woke up, she determined that she was still on the plane. She tried looking out the air holes in her box but couldn't make out anything outside of her prison. She was relieved to still be wearing her lime green Lululemon leggings and white tank, even her black sports bra was intact underneath. Realizing that she desperately needed to pee, she went to work on freeing her hands and feet, which she determined in the darkness were held with zip ties. She had only slipped her shoes off when the hissing started and she briskly passed out.
When she woke up again, her pants were soaked with urine. She also realized she was drenched in sweat and the inside of her box must have stunk. Danielle suddenly noticed that the high pitched hum of the jet engines had been replaced by men talking in the distance. The pitch darkness now gave way to faint tubes of light beaming in through the air holes.
She listened closely to the voices. They were male but they weren't speaking English. Little by little, the voices got closer, until it sounded like they were right outside her box. They must be unloading her. Now was her chance.
"HELP!" She shouted.
The voices stopped.
"HELP! There's a person in here!. Help me!"
Silence.
"Ayuda me!"
Some laughter. She heard someone working on the outside of her box.
"Please let me out! They kidnapped me!"
Hissing.
"NO, Please! Please don't......"
This time when Danielle woke up, a gag had been stuffed in her mouth. She determined that she was in a truck. The temperature inside her box must have been over 120 degrees and sweat oozed from every pore on her. Her hair was matted to her face and her clothes were now completely soaked with a combination of sweat and drool from the gag. To make matters worse, she was completely parched.
As the truck bounced down the road, she tried desperately to remove the gag before finally giving up. She decided to work on an escape plan. She found her gray Nikes in the box and managed to slip them back on so she could run as soon as possible. She remembered seeing youtube videos about escaping zip ties during her long hours of procrastinating at the mill. She tried all the tricks she could remember but none would break the ties.
She started to cry. She tried wiping the sweat from her eyes with her shirt but it just made them burn. She hoped this ride would be over soon, it was torture. It lasted another 3 hours.
After some sudden jerking and forward and backward maneuvering, the truck finally stopped and the engine shut down. Danielle was both relieved and terrified. She prepared herself to fight.
The loud clatter of the roll up door made Danielle jump, and the foreign voices filled her box again. Fresh, cool air slowly began to replace the stale air in her prison as it was lifted and placed on a cart. She tried to peer out the air holes as the cart moved but her body was too slippery to hold herself up in the smooth interior of the box. She watched the light get brighter and darker and tried to guess how far into the building she was being taken as she was wheeled deeper and deeper. She heard an elevator door close and felt the cart start to go down. The door opened and she was wheeled what must have been another hundred feet and she heard a heavy door slam. The cart stopped.
The box filled with foreign voices again. They all seemed to be in close proximity. Danielle made fists with her bound hands. There was some clunking on the outside of the box and the lid suddenly lifted. Before she could throw the first punch, she was grabbed by the bound hands and legs and lifted into a gray concrete room and placed on a table.
A group of men crowded around her, a mix of white and middle eastern, 7 by Danielle's count but there may have been more. The youngest, a middle eastern man in his mid 20s, spoke up.