In A Cave

When I came too, it was still dark or at least dark enough that at first I didn’t realize that I was in a small earthen room with a steel grate across its front. I crawled my way over to the bars and grabbed a pair. There was a light coming in from a few feet away. As if an opening of a cave.

“Hello!... Hello!... Is anyone there?”

No answer except for a bird call. I let go of the bars and checked myself. My clothes were still on, all my buttons still closed as were the zipper of my jeans. Hell, even my shoes were still on my feet. I then looked around and saw nothing, no backpack, so I had no spare clothes, snacks, flashlight and worse no GPS phone.

Great Brianna was going to say “I told you so Karen, I just hope you filled your contact information out so we can tell your next of kin that you’re missing!

Then from the front somewhere a sound of a barking dog split the air. “Quiet Cletus, that’s just a squirrel!’ Then the light gets blocked by a shape that moves closer to the bars. “I’ve got to check on our visitor so your hush your barking you flea bitten mutt!”

A beam of light hits my face And i cover my eyes with my left hand.

“Hey that’s my flashlight!, give it back and let me go!”

“Oh that’s a rich one, you trespass in my home and you think that you deserve to go free do you missy!” Then from his shoulder, a light reflects off the long barrel of a shotgun. “Now you just do what you’re told and I’ll take you to the house!”

Shotgun be damned, I’m not going to do anything whoever he said until I had a sense of what he wanted from me. I got it next time he said something to me.

“Now why don’t you take them clothes off so I can judge what you have!”