Silence. An empty, eerie silence, the stale, damp scent of being underground hung heavily in the air. He couldn’t see, couldn’t hear anything side from the steady beating of his own heart. A dark colored cloth covered his eyes, blocking his vision, and a steel bar had been firmly jammed between his teeth, a metallic taste lingering in the back of his throat. The cool, hard sensation of concrete was pressed against his cheek, his arms wound behind him, cuffed together at the wrists...And all the while, he could feel pain burning away at his nerves, eating at him, gnawing at him. He wondered what would become of him, feeling a certain sense of unease, yet respite in being unable to see nothing in this darkness...All around him...He almost felt as though he would fade away, melding with th

