Hannah was in darkness. She couldn’t feel her body. She had welcomed the calm darkness, she wanted to give up, no more pain. It felt like she was in a quicksand of darkness. Around her she saw Bryan, the headmasters, the bullies. And she kept hearing and feeling everything that had happened in her life. Bryan calling her a whore, the headmaster fondling her, the whips. Her screams. It just wouldn’t end. She wanted to give up right there. Then she heard it, someone whispering her name, in a soft voice. “Hannah don’t give up.” It was a female voice. She fought to get out of the quicksand. She finally got up and tried to follow the voice in the darkness. She had no feeling of time. Minutes, hours, days could have passed by and she wouldn’t know any difference. She just kept walking around in search for the voice who had called her name, around her the darkness was filled with the lustful laughter and cheering of the audience in the cellar.