VALERIE
The world around me spun, disorienting me. Voices echoed in the distance, distorted and overlapping like a sinister melody. My head throbbed, the pounding pulse in my ears drowning out any thought.
I tried to move, but my limbs felt like lead, bound and held firmly in place. The cold bite of metal cut into my wrists, and the gag in my mouth muffled the sounds of my muffled protests. Where was I? Who had taken me?
I thrashed against the unseen hands gripping me, but they held me down with ruthless precision. Every movement was met with resistance, as though I were trapped in a nightmare I couldn’t wake from. My vision blurred, the shapes around me twisting into unrecognizable forms.
Finally, they stopped moving. The sharp clang of metal against metal jolted me, followed by the
