For my drabble-challenge over on tumblr; for more info, please check my profile here. ;)
For an anon who asked for "Irma" and "questions".
Captured
Irma sat down on the cot, burying her face in her hands. As much as she loved the color purple, all this purple light in here was making her dizzy. She looked over to the small observation window in the cell door, but quickly turned her head away again when she caught one of these strange robots with the brains in their bellies looking inside.
Her heart started pounding like mad.
Please go away, she thought. Please leave me alone!
When she risked another peek moments later, she realized the robot was gone again.
She breathed a sigh of relief, knowing the relief wouldn't last longer than the time it took her to finish that breath.
She was locked in a purple cell after all.
And what was even more disturbing, she had no idea why.
This morning when she had left her apartment building, only wearing a scarf – the cold had never been a problem for her, winter, snow, she didn't care – these strange men in business suits that she first had taken for triplets had walked up to her and the same second a van had stopped next to her.
And before she could ask them what they wanted, they had grabbed her. She had struggled, she had struggled a lot, but within seconds they had gagged her and tied her hands up, and the next thing she remembered was being tossed into that van.
After a drive that had felt like it had been going on forever, she had been brought into her cell. On their way she had seen so many other business men that all looked just the same, so she had abandoned her triplets-theory. And there had been these robots, too, these robots with brains in their bellies, strange looking brains with faces.
And then she had been thrown into her cell and stayed there ever since.
Not a word what they wanted from her, no interrogation, no nothing.
They checked on her every now and then, but that was it.
So Irma was alone in her cell, alone with all her questions.
Why had she been kidnapped?
What did they want from her?
Why didn't they tell her anything?
And the most important question of all: Was she going to survive this?