The Crypt

Naked, cold and alone, Sarah Grieves lay on a filthy red brick, sweat soaked and unforgiving floor. It had been a few hours since she was dumped here, bathed in only the flickering light's of some dying candles. She had lay motionless for the last hour, her bare chest rising and falling softly until the cold began to interrupt her sleeping.

Before long, her breathing became more light and melodious as she started to stir and laboriously groan, the effects off her forcibly induced rest beginning to wean and recollections of what felt like had happened just moments ago, filtered into her memory and her eyes began to flicker as she felt a pinch from a broken brick stab at her back. Acting on feigned instinct than anything else, her eyes suddenly opened and her breathing quickened. For a moment she lay still, acutely aware that she was naked, or at least topless as she looked quizzically at the ceiling and her eyes moved around the room. Licking her dry lips as she breathed in the heavy dirt of her surroundings, she moved slowly and pressed her hands into the dusty shuffled footprints, blood stains and broken debris that littered the floor around her.

"Wher-" she heavily breathed out, her lungs working overtime as she groaned and rubbed her head in her hand. "What?" She groggily said aloud, her voice dry and her limbs feeling lethargic as she rolled to her side then pushed up onto her knees. “Where am I?” she quietly asked, her eyes surveying the disgusting surroundings before shivering and covering her chest with her forearms.

Looking at her legs then at her naked torso, the sudden realisation that she was indeed naked caused her to began to weep, she was totally naked and someone had put her in here. She couldn't think who and trying to think rationally, she was too scared to shout out or run. Clenching her jaw and trying to calm her breathing, she couldn't help her nostrils beginning to flare and her body starting to convulse. "Why?" She said softly between deep breaths before repeating again and again and again, her voice breaking a little more after each word spoken and tears running down her cheeks.