For Amelia, the time it took for Lucas to change out of his dirty clothes into the ones they brought for him felt like a blur. There was a brief moment of suspense as they silently hoped Lucas would be able to stand and walk. When he first tried to get up and fell back into the chair with a thud, Amelia shuddered at the possibility that his mobility might be the obstacle preventing them from getting out. Despite Daniel warning her about this possibility, part of her clung to the hope that those twenty-odd days of torture wouldn’t be enough to incapacitate him physically. She knew her father and refused to believe that now, of all times, he would change his modus operandi and incapacitate a hostage so quickly.
Lucas made the effort to stand again, and this time, his legs held him, though t
