Chapter 22 Taken

• Annie
• I feel jolting-- almost as if I'm in the back of a moving vehicle, but I'm barely conscious. My mouth feels like the Sahara Desert, only worse and every time I swallow it can only be compared to knives slowly sliding down my throat. I find I can't open my mouth because something... fabric maybe? Is blocking it. I think there is some kind of gag in my mouth. But why? How could that be?
• I hear muffled words coming from somewhere near me, but I'm too out of it to make out any specific phrases. It all sounds like a mess of garbled letters and numbers that my brain is too foggy to make heads or tails of. My mind can't seem to process the human language, and my head feels like it's full of heavy rocks. Every jolt of whatever vehile I'm in causes more and more pain. I used to get headaches as a teen, but nothing compares to this. I've never had this bad of a headache before...