Essie could hear voices talking and then the sound of a muffled scream. She tried to lift her arm to touch her face, feeling something sticky all over it but her hand felt weighed down. The last thing she remembered was their car being hit by another vehicle coming out of a driveway unexpectedly, Piper shoving her to the floor and the loud crashing of metal on metal. Their car rolled several times down an embankment and her head bounced off the door and the side window shattering from the impact.
Opening her eyes she realized she was no longer in the car but sitting in an upholstered chair, but she was tied up in it. The muffled screaming started again, and she slowly lifted her aching head to look around and was horrified to see Eliska also tied up in a chair. Her chair wasn’t as nice as
