“Someone, help me, please. Anyone.”
Orchid heard a soft voice. She couldn’t understand what it said, but it sounded scared. “Hello?”
The reply wasn’t faint, but she wasn’t sure it was directed at…
Orchid followed the voice. “Keep talking so I can find you, okay?”
A sound from elsewhere caught her ears, and she shrank back in the cage. If she kept talking, who else might hear? It took a long moment before she scraped up enough courage to respond again. “I think someone else is here.”