"Puzzle"
The Death Eater's cackling surrounded her as she was shoved past an opening in the stone wall. She was forced forward and fell, scraping her knees on the sharp gravel.
In front of her, the path didn't go very far before ending in a wall and the path stretched out two opposite directions in a horizontal line. Ginny's heart clenched. It was a maze. She was being tossed into a maze, a labyrinth.
"It's a puzzle," the same Death Eater told her in a smooth, baritone voice. "Find your way through and we'll let you go. Fail…and we'll watch you die, alone, in this maze."
For a minute, his voice reverberated oddly and Ginny thought she might be hearing her fate spoken to her, but then realized it was her head hearing things oddly from shaking her head back and forth, silently screaming no inside her head. She scrambled to her feet, pushing off against the wall and abrading the side of her arm as she did so, but she was too late. The stone door clanged shut ominously, leaving her alone. Light filtered in from somewhere high above, but she could tell by one glance it was fading dangerously fast.
Ginny didn't sleep at all that night. She nearly cried in relief with the first rays of dawn filtered down to her temporary trap. The dawn revived her, and she managed to convince herself she would make it out. And with that pep talk, her Gryffindor courage returned, and she resolved that the first step was to get her arms free.
She set off in a fairly good mood, although it was tempered by the anxiety lurking just beyond her conscious brain's approval and the knowledge that she had to make a fast pace or else. But she wasn't willing to think about the or else. Ginny was relieved when her hands were freed.
But she wasn't quite strong enough to make it on her own. She came across food and drink when she thought she was ready to collapse, and devoured it. But it was poisoned, and when Draco found her, nearly 3 days later, she was wandering around aimlessly, hallucinating. He immediately took her to Snape, inwardly panicking. It took all his strength to nurse her back to health, and he would never forget the grateful look in her eyes when she woke up and saw him.
Day 12, Puzzle
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