Chapter 749

• Everything was enveloped in darkness. It was sneaky, enveloping all of the light, all of the memories, and all sense of time. How much time had she spent here? Did it last for a day, a week, or perhaps a month? She didn't believe it to be any longer. The idea of light was still fresh in her mind, but she was reasonably confident that it would have faded if darkness had been her only experience for the previous year or more. That is what sensory deprivation did to a person. It muddled up space and time. It so confused your thinking that you lost all sense of who you were and which way was up or down.
• She knew her name was on the tip of her tongue. She could reach for it but it would only slip away again as it had so many times before. The creature would arrive and there would be the barest of sensation at her right side and then oblivion would creep back in. So, this time she didn't reach for her name. The crushing disappointment of almost getting there only to have it snatched cruelly away again would be too much to bear.
• Something did feel different this time though. The clarity was stronger, and she was sure that she could sense a presence to her left side. Someone was with her, someone lay close and he was important to her. He! She was aware of his gender and his presence. That hadn't happened before. Perhaps she was becoming immune to whatever drug was being administered or maybe something had happened to their abductor and he couldn't come back to knock them out again.