Her vision is blurred but she still saw what was happening in front of her. Sora is on the floor trying her best to have her eyelids open, they fought to stay closed but she resisted. Her eyes saw three men huddled in a circle discussing quite loudly on their next action. She identified two of the three men, they were the ones who kidnapped her and took her away from Tai. Sora needed to hear what they were saying. She needed to know if she could get away.

The third man gestured his hands vigorously towards his henchmen. He had slick black hair that was combed back, a scruffy beard, tattoos that were visible on his hands and fingers. His black suit seemed sharp with a red satin tie. She heard him mumbling, and when he turned his head over to her, she had a small heart attack, or at least it seemed like one. His eyes glaring down upon her scared Sora to death, it made her palms sweat more than they were originally. Just by this glare,she knew automatically that he is the brains behind the operation. Her eyes saw his body and feet move closer to her and away from his men, Sora thought of how much she wanted to hurt him. He kneeled down and his grimy fingers moved a strand of her hair away from her face but Sora jerked her head away from his touch. He knew what that meant, and surely, he did not like it.

"Oh. A feisty one, boys. " His voice seemed eerie to her ears. His voice is surely one to never forget. "I hope she doesn't act too much of an issue when she deals with her customers."

Customers? What did they mean exactly by 'customers'?

"Boss!" A fourth man dashed inside the room holding a package. He seemed out of breath but he had a grin on his face. "Tomi just delivered us the deal we made yesterday! And when I mean delivered, he delivered more than what we asked for, boss!"

The Boss' fingers curled back into palm and his head turned the other way towards his henchmen. He stood quiet and paced to his henchman that carried the packaged deal and opened the cardboard box with his pocket knife, flipping the flaps open revealing a plastic bag full of weed, and another full of crystal meth.

"...This is more than I asked. Is Tomi downstairs?"

"Yes sir!"

With that being said, he rushed down the steps of the building, leaving Sora all alone with items that could aid her to become free. So without any second to spare, she wiggled her body to the wall behind her and sat herself up. She looked around the room in search of something that is sharp, small and can easily rip through the rope her hands were tied on. But there had not been anything around that could aid her in freeing herself from the tight, gripping rope. Time was not on her side so she had to conclude a different approach to her escape. Her quick thinking led her to transfer her tied up hands from her back, under her feet and to her lap where she now had a visible look at her roped hands. Biting the rope didn't help her an anyway except a minor pounding to her teeth. Forcing her hands out of the rope made her wrist red with friction burns and a slight scraping of her skin. With nothing to set her free, her thoughts raced around her mind to make Sorta escape. That was her propriety and now was her chance. All she had to do figure out where she needs to go to get out of here. Her feet raised her body with the support of the wall, once she was up she quickly made her way to the door frame. Sorta peeked out through the hallway and saw an empty hallway that led to an empty stairway.

Sora's feet crept towards the staircase and slowly took a step down and then the next step, another step, another step and then...she heard voices from below her feet. They were echoing, bouncing from wall to wall and Sorta took this opportunity to hear on what they were saying. Perhaps it could help in why they took her away.

"...took her midday. She had a boy there with her,"

A boy with her? Could they have talked about Tai?

"What happened to the boy?" An unfamiliar voice spoke. Sorta assumed it was the man who delivered the drugs to him, Tomi.

"We took care of him." The henchmen snickered. Knowing that Tai is safe and away from this made her feel relaxed but unknowing what physical damage they did to him concerned her.

"The girl will be ready tomorrow and join the others. She'll perform wonderfully so we will be able to make triple our profit solely on her."

Sora couldn't believe what she had heard. The whole purpose of them raping and kidnapping her was all for profit. This is trafficking. And she was an offer to be sold to any man who desperately had thirst for sexual needs. Her heart had dropped down from her chest to the bottom of her stomach. Her tears had arisen from her eyes and dropped down her cheeks. This type of news astonished her, but in the most horrendous of ways. Now, she was determined to escape. She couldn't risk being here any more. She couldn't stand the idea of being someone's sex toy and being sold at a certain price based from performance.

Going downstairs was not an option. She had to find another way out, as she went back up the stairs, Sora saw a door on the opposite side of where she came from. With little skill of stealth, she quietly tip toed back up the steps and reached for the doorknob with her tied hands and turned it to the right. She slowly opened the door and slipped through the small gap between the door and the frame closing it slowly behind her. Now she entered a different room, one that actually had a bed and a person laying down on it covered in white sheets. Sora saw an open window and saw that perhaps it could be her way out, only if it didn't lead her way, way down. Sora took a step forward and made sure it didn't disrupt the person in the bed. She took another and another but nothing had disrupted the person in the bed. Yet. She drew closer to the open door and she drew closer to the bed as well. She couldn't help herself but peek her eyes on the person on the bed.
"It's a woman..." Sora whispered. An older woman just laid there in the sheets. Her body seemed cold, and emotionless. Sora had assumed that the woman had slept but now her thoughts were that she had died on that very bed. Her arms were the only limbs that were visible and saw bruising on her skin, dried blood and a tiny hole. A hole that would be perfect for injecting drugs into the body. Sora couldn't move. Seeing this woman's dead body just laying there angered her, Sora's blood boiled with frustration on how these monstrous men treated this woman.

No respect.

A sex toy for their pleasure.

A slave with no freedom.

A woman with no right.

Left for dead.

Sora had her intentions to cover her face in respect for her death. There was no need for her face to be shown if it no longer would see her family or friends ever again.

Large and heavy footsteps climbed up the steps of the stairs while their voices murmured through the walls and door of the room Sora is in. Sora quickly crawled on her knees and squirmed underneath the bed watching from below of their footsteps that would enter the room in a few moments. She closed her mouth to stop her heavy breathing and took a breath to calm herself. If she hadn't done so, her heavy breath would have given her away. Their footsteps arrived in front of the door and it swung up with the four men entering the room discussing what tome they were going to meet tomorrow. One of the men approached the bed standing right in front of it, and asking when this woman died.

"Hmm?" The boss stood beside his henchman and tapped his fingers against the bed frame. "I didn't realize she had died. I guess I was too much for her."

A burst of laughter shot out throughout the room. Sora shut her eyes tightly and balled her hand into a fist. She had to control her anger and resentment of these men.

"Get her off the bed, Keisuke." The boss stepped aside as one of the two henchmen began to uncover the woman from the sheets. "I don't want her stench to seep into the bed sheets. It'll be bad business for me if they do." The henchman, Keisuke, then rolled the body of the woman off the mattress landing on cold wooden floor. Sora reopened her eyes after the loud sound if the body falling on to the floor. Her eyes locked on to the dead, soulless eyes of the woman and her mind ran blank.

Her eyes stung painfully with tears that had built up and flowed down her cheeks like a tiny stream on her face. Her heart pounded twice as loudly than before in her chest and her body shook in astonishment, fear, anger and sorrow. Her emotions were spilling out and uncontrollably.

The woman in the bed had been her mother. Sora finally found her, but only dead.


I know it's way late into the chapters and very close to the endings for each of our girls, but, are these stories graphic in an uncomfortable way for you guys? Sometimes I feel like I imagine the scene to be graphic so I try to trim it down to where it isn't. If it does, please, by all respect, let me know. Any comment or PM will help me become a better author for my followers on this story! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Take care!

-DinoRaws aka Liz :)