She awoke in a daze. Disillusioned until the feel of warm, spiky straw pricking her skin, forced realisation to come flooding back, she remembered exactly where she was.
The beast lay sleeping in front of her. Terrified as she was by her ordeal, she could not help but admire the rippling muscular form as it rose and fell from breathing heavily. Its suede-like skin was glistening from the sweat that had built up as a result of its earlier effort to take her through force. "Such immense force" she thought to herself.
Shaking herself from the absorbing sight before her, it came to her attention that if she were ever to be able to escape from this captivity, her chance was now as the creature slept. It would not be as simple as she'd hoped. It was still dark and she had no idea where she was. She also did not know how far or in which direction her home, or at least safety, might be. She may be a country girl, but with not even a shred of clothing on her back, she doubted how long she could survive in the wilderness.
Along with this, the creature's immense form was blocking her path through the cave to the entrance. She had been flung into the straw-laden corner and promptly passed out. The daemon, it seems, had found a suitably comfy spot where the walls of the cave narrowed and his length filled the gap. "I'll have to try" she thought. Gingerly she tested the movement of her body. She had been thrashed about by the beast and now was fearful that her lithe muscles would not hold out. She carefully started to step towards the crouched form in front of her, trying to find a path around the hulking body. She saw a gap by its elbow where its head rested on its forearm, and tried to tiptoe into the space. The beast's head stirred as its foot neared, but after a small snort it again settled. Her other foot rose slowly, lifted over the head below it, and came back down on the other side. Her heartbeat started to race as she realised she was one step away from the beginning of freedom. Freedom, it seems, that would not be so easy to come by.
As she started to lift her foot from within the daemon's joint, she felt a strong hand grasp her ankle firmly. In a blind panic she fell to the floor and attempted to kick herself free. The hand that held her, however, was strong and powerful and not about to let go. It was as if her kicks and punches on its skin were like paper strips on tough leather. Awoken from its slumber, its reactions took a while to register, but now it could see that its prey was trying to evade containment, it took action to prevent escape. It's other hand came up to her neck and firmly grasped around her throat. As she gasped for air, the hand holding her ankle moved up to her slender waist and she was lifted high in the air and firmly put back towards the inside of the cave.