10-20-2017, 01:40 PM
She woke and could not move. A note of immediate panic locked her chest, coursing ice through her veins. Dim memories skated at the back of her mind, but they bled into a terrible darkness. She squeezed her eyes shut, breath catching in her raw throat, air never reaching her lungs. Don't panic, don't panic, don't panic. But when her fists tightened and opened, she realised straps held her down. Her teeth sank into her lip to stifle whatever awful sound threatened to escape.
Breathe. You only have to breathe.
She forced it all down. Numb and hollow. You're not dead, are you? And you're hardly helpless. But she certainly felt it. Shivered with it. Because the light hadn't come when she'd almost died in Africa, had it? And her mother's money wouldn't save her now.
Breathe. You only have to breathe.
She forced it all down. Numb and hollow. You're not dead, are you? And you're hardly helpless. But she certainly felt it. Shivered with it. Because the light hadn't come when she'd almost died in Africa, had it? And her mother's money wouldn't save her now.