Lucretia is terrified. Titus just kidn*pped her, and she is unsure about her fate. Every time she moves, Titus pushes her down with his elbow. She is small and weak, and all her efforts to escape from the back of the horse is in vain. He steers the horse into a forest close to the villa. Their going is slow as it is difficult to see anything in the dark forest. But he presses on, cursing every time a branch hits him in the face. With the cloth in her mouth, Lucretia cannot curse. But many branches slap her through the face as well. She fears she may have scars on her pretty face if she makes it through this alive. When dawn breaks, Titus finds an area with thick brush. He ties the horse to a tree, before he ties one end of a vine to his wrist, and the other end to the cloth which binds Lu
