I open my eyes as I erratically search around, looking for clues as I gather my thoughts.

Where am I...? Who am I...? So hungry... So cold... So... Alone...

Suddenly, a faint whisper echo in my head. “Never alone”. The words shake my very core, holding a cold grasp over my mind. It was uneven, rising and falling with every syllable as if a wild beast made its first attempt pronouncing.

I try to respond with my own words, but my vocal cords are struggling against my will. I have thought of so many words to say but managed to utter none of it. The room is so dark and silent that I could hear ringing in my ears. There’s nobody around me, I could somehow sense it but I can’t shake the feeling that there's someone... Some... Thing... A presence other than me, trying to claw its way through.

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I begin to flail my arm around slowly, moving forward an inch at a time. The pitch blackness didn’t help one bit, and on my sixth step, I feel a slippery sensation beneath my feet. That alone is enough to throw my balance away and my struggle is all for nought, as I begin to fall and land on my butt.

Withholding the pain, I crawl forward using all of my limbs and I could feel something on my right hand. It was cold and hard - a metal bar that is lodged into the ground vertically.

I immediately realize that I’m imprisoned behind bars, and begin to shake the bars one by one. A compartment of the metal bars rattles from the applied force, indicating that the part could move.

Further inspection of the moving part shows that it is designed so that someone could fit through when it is opened but unfortunately, there's a locking mechanism. I try to muster my strength and pull it hard enough that I feel nothing else other than numbness in my right hand. My stomach rumbles, as I place my other hand onto it.

Must have been a while since I last ate, it feels as if there’s a hole inside my stomach.

My consciousness begins to wade as the numbness from my right side beings to take over my sense of touch, I began to fade away into the darkness.