This gave Julie a momentary hope that Ed might be able to at least minimally assist her when the time came. But of course that nefarious bastard knew what he was doing. After glancing around the room a bit (never did he look completely away from her for more than a minute), he taped Ed’s mouth shut and grabbed one of their own ropes from the box on the floor.
Tying one end of this through the plastic manacle about his wrists, Sawyer dragged Ed over by the TV and threw the other end of the rope up over the base of the deer antlers mounted over that electronics recess. After testing to ensure that the plaque was screwed solidly to the wall, he pulled on the rope, hauling Ed upright to hang by the hands from his own hunting trophy. With his bare toes but barely retaining purchase with the fl
