"She has no idea what she's getting herself into..." I heard them whispering to each other. "Haha yep she'll regret it this time. It was so cute in her Ad, 'I'm down for anything. I'll only take the most gory description'" He squeaked nasally in a high pitched girly voice, making fun of me.
"Now she'll learn how weak and naïve she really is. Khan is going to have fun with this one."
I wondered if they were talking by my cell on purpose. It was a little off putting but I knew myself well. I was ready for this. I couldn't wait for it. I knew exactly what was coming. I'd gone over every detail of the description pouring over line by line with fervor. Part of me had an inkling that perhaps they weren't planning on following their description. But I quickly let it go thinking that even if they did, I'd still enjoy it. Even more so perhaps, the unknown can be so enticing.
After the long car ride from the woods to wherever we were now, I had been quickly shuffled into a cold little cell without much pretense and surprisingly little violence. Still hooded, gagged and cuffed, two men had led me down what sounded like a stone hallway based on the echoes from our footsteps. They were silent, one in front leading me by a chain clipped to my cuffs and the other behind occasionally prodding me forward with some sort of cane. When we arrived, the leading guard unceremoniously ripped off my hood and shoved me into the small cell, leaving me cuffed and tossing the long chain in after me. The door slammed shut.
Apart from the small beam streaming from the hallway through the cell door's barred window, there was no light. No movement in the air. Everything was still and cold and silent. The first few hours were uneventful apart from the guards I overheard talking as they passed by. I inspected my cell. It was small but relatively clean. The entire thing was carved from stone; stone walls, stone 'bed' roughly chiseled, and a small but deep hole in the corner. The only thing that wasn't stone was a small pipe in the ceiling over the hole and a metal knob in the wall. 'Thank god' I thought to myself when water poured from the pipe with a turn of the handle.
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Just when I had begun to settle in for the night the lights in the hallway dimmed.
In the darkness there were whispers.
A soft feminine voice murmured, "Is anyone out there?" At first I thought surely that somehow they'd let someone in the room with me. Or someone in the hallway? I peered through the window. Nothing. I pressed my ears to every wall. Nothing.
Slowly it began to sink in. There was no one around me. No one here at all.
Then there were more. The voices, so many different tones and distances.... they were getting closer. "Can you help me?" A young girl's voice from the corner of the cell. I whipped around and stared into the corner willing someone, anyone to appear. Of course I would never wish someone that young to be in this place, but for my own sanity... Nothing.
Laughter echoed off the walls, louder now coming from all around in a growing cacophony.
"She's getting nervous!" Eerie gleeful giggling circled around me as if small children were dancing in circles around me.
"Maybe a little but I think she wants to play with us!"
"She's not screaming like the other ones, no fair!"
Just then all the little giggles turned into excited whispers and gasps. "He's coming for you now!!" squealed a voice in delight.
"He said we can watch!"
I'm not sure if I'm really starting to lose it now but I somehow started to feel a sort of a "shooing" energy, like an adult gently shooing children out of the kitchen so that a delicious feast could be prepared without interference. The giggles quieted and they scampered away, but I could still feel their curious watchful eyes as if they were peeking over the tops of the walls to watch the production.
I felt the energy in the room begin to shift. "Oh now this is interesting, you can sense me." a calm, mature voice said from everywhere and nowhere. It was said with such clarity, knowledge and oh... that alluring sense of power. The soft, yet confident voice resounded in my ear, dark masculine. Suddenly it felt like someone was two inches from my ear. "Hello there." it said simply. The twinge of sadism peaked through his deep voice. Curious and almost bestial.
I shivered. Just as fear started to creep through my body I heard footsteps approaching down the hallway. The presences left as quickly as they had come. I was alone again. The footsteps stopped and I heard a key jangling in the lock to my cell. The excitement started to build once more and I tried to put the voices out of my mind. Being in a cell alone was sure to make anyone a little nuts. This was it. Someone was coming for me.
