I ache from head to toe. I feel something cold and hard against my knees, so I must be kneeling. My hands are tied tightly together behind my back. I have never felt such pain in my life - even running didn’t cause me anywhere near this much agony. My skin feels like leather, so dry, any movement at all could crack it. I open my eyes; they feel as though they are held closed with superglue. I discover, to my horror, that I am not just kneeling with my hands tied behind my back as I first thought, but I am kneeling over a tree stump, tied face down to it. I am wearing only my underwear, white boy shorts and a sports bra. I can feel the rough texture of the wood on my bare stomach as I lay across the hard surface. The sun is scalding my back; I don’t want to even Imagine the sunburn that I must have. I lift my head to look around, it hurts even more. How long have I been here? It’s hard to explain how I feel right now, just one more item to add to the list of terrible things that have happened to me in the last few days.
