Chapter 25 Marianna

• "Lock her up." He told his men then turned to her "You will stay there until you change your mind. I won't let you out this time"
• She snickered. The old man's punishments were getting boring. How many times had she been thrown in there? How many times had she come out, stronger at that? She didn't care. The dark didn't scare her. They could lock her in that place for the rest of her life and she still wouldn't do what he wanted. As one of the guys moved to force her into the basement, she rolled her eyes and walked in herself. Flipping him the bird. Screw them. All of them. There was no reason for her to look around since she'd been there countless times. Arrogantly she walked to the corner and sat down, glaring up at the camera facing her. Sooner or later they were going to get tired of throwing her in the basement and find other forms of punishment. Was there something they could come up with that would hurt her? To her, it seemed like they'd tried everything and failed.
• A few hours later, she was startled awake. Blinking she wondered when she'd fallen asleep and what had woken her up. The place was colder now, she realized just as something touched her arm. She had one second to see what it was before someone turned off the lights. Soft, slimy, and disgusting. The right thing to do would have been to scream but all of a sudden she couldn't even breathe let alone call for help. Fear paralyzed her as she felt them climbing all over her body. Before the lights went out, she'd seen three but now it felt like there were more. And since she couldn't see them, she had no way to escape or avoid them.