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She couldn’t remember how long she’d been down there. Without sunlight, days and night blurred together into a hazy scramble of nightmare-laced sleep, brief questioning, and useless attempts to find a way out. She’d tried screaming for help, logical reasoning, tearful pleas — nothing worked. She might have had more luck if she’d been able to pick locks, or wasn’t closed up in a cage slightly smaller than her height.<\/p>\n
And that was all setting aside the occasional dose of electricity they jolted her with, and whatever was in the food that managed to suppress her power.<\/p>\n
So far she’d seen two, both male. They had a family resemblance, though one was dark and rugged-looking and the other more clean-cut and lighter. Honestly, it was the lighter man she was more afraid of — in the brief times she wasn’t drugged, she could sense a terrifying edge of cunning. The dark one was just scared, mostly, and hiding it.<\/p>\n
She curled up small in the cage and rocked quietly, trying to keep her thoughts together. Her stomach growled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
She couldn’t remember how long she’d been down there. Without sunlight, days and night blurred together into a hazy scramble of nightmare-laced sleep, brief questioning, and useless attempts to find a way out. She’d tried screaming for help, logical reasoning, tearful pleas — nothing worked. She might have had more luck if she’d been able … Continue reading <\/span>