The girl's eyes snapped suddenly open. She blinked, her eyes searching blindly in the darkness while she tried to make sense of her situation. She was lying on her back, on something cold and scratchy. There was also something that felt like a wall pressing against the top of her head.. She raised one hand slowly to her face until she felt the skin of her palm touch the tip of her nose, but she could not see it. Was she blind? This darkness was suffocating, heavy and humid. She held one arm out in front of her while she ever so slowly eased herself into a sitting position, and then onto her knees. She stuck both arms out to the sides. One immediately hit a wall and she was knocked off balance, landing with a metallic 'thud' on the floor. She froze, had anyone heard her? Was there even anyone there? She found another wall, or perhaps the same one. She ran her hands across its cold metal surface until it met another, and then another and then –