WATER DRIPPED SOMEWHERE nearby, the sound like a tiny chime pinging against her brain. Ping, ping, ping...each note plunging a needle between her eyes. She held her breath as a fresh wave of pain speared through her head.
Cold infused her limbs, and she gritted her teeth against a shiver. The thought of moving sent fresh tremors of dread through her.
Beneath her the ground was hard, gritty. The moisture she heard dripping somewhere in the distance turned the air sour with mildew.
She wrinkled her nose. Agony slashed behind her eyes and she gasped, going still.
The high-pitched whine of a siren crept into her consciousness. Her pulse climbed as she tried to remember why the sirens were important.
They had something to do with her.
Something she couldn’t remember.
Knowing she had to m
