Chapter Fifteen
Crossroads
Jessica woke and everything hurt: her back, her arms, her middle. She groaned and curled up. Something was different though. Her eyes opened. She was still on the bed. The feeling of a real blanket, a pillow, and a mattress was so soft and homely. Her eyes opened and she looked around. It was in the middle of the night. Only the full moon gave some light through the windows.
Slowly she sat up and the pictures of the past day came back to her mind. The reality of her situation did not let her have even a few minutes of just enjoying not being in a cage. She sighed and stretched her arms and legs, tried to get some resemblance of relaxation into them. It worked after a while. Her back hurt like fire though along with her wrists.
What is that? something small ma
