Chapter 68: Imprisoned pt. 1

Emily

 

Manacles bite into my wrists, and the dank air is so thick it’s like I’m breathing underwater.

“Hello?” My voice echoes back to me along with the drip of water on slime covered stone. “Anybody?”

The darkness stings my eyes, and the harder I strain to see, the worse it gets. The muscles in my armpits and elbows sing with exhaustion, every bit of me sore for being strung up by the wrists for hours. Days. Maybe weeks.

Worse than all of that is the unfathomable hole in my chest where my heart should be. It’s been replaced by a sense of hopelessness so profound it’s a miracle I’m still alive. If I am alive, that is. This is perilously close to what being dead must feel like. Damned to the deepest, pitch black pit of hell with no reprieve in sight.

I have to save them, a voice in my core screams. But that doesn’t make any sense. Who in the world would I have to save?

The children. My children.