Chapter 9 What I Am

• The first thing I felt as I careened back feet over shoulders, were hard steps. I hit my head and crunched one shoulder along them before rolling further into a dirt floor.
• I whined in pain, but she was already slamming the door shut above me. Casting me in utter darkness. I panicked at first. Feeling as though there was no air coming in here. Feeling the walls surrounding me. Feeling trapped for the first time.
• And hating it.