Chapter 3
Cryo-sleep.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared at the vastness of the universe before her. This was no longer a joke, it was reality or some fucked up dream. "I'm…I'm...Amanda." " Well Amanda, now that we have things better understood, we have a long trip ahead of us, so get ready to enter cryo-sleep." With her head turned to the stars still she asked "Cryo Sleep, wait I still don't understand why you need me?" " It's a long trip so get comfy in that chair." She tore her gaze from the stars and looked in his direction. She slowly slid her right hand over the burses and various cuts and scraps on her left arm. "By the time you wake up those will all be healed." He said as he slid out of his chair onto his knees in front of her. Amanda suddenly grew very nervous and went to leave the chair, just so she could get some space between them while she figured out what to do.
Amanda got about half of her right butt cheek out of the chair before she was slammed back into it by Riddick massive grasp. She struggled under his weight as he kept her pinned in the chair, his knees pinning her legs in place, keeping her from kicking him. She was thrashing around wildly underneath his weight as he tied her left hand to the chair. He then put a cold heavy piece of metal ( cryo-brace) around her right arm and centered it on her wrist. He then tied her arm down and sat back him his chair with a grin on his face. Amanda looked at him in a confused and untrusting manner, as he pushed a button next to him. The armband gave off a small vibration feeling and then she felt the cold prick of four small needles as they worked they way into her skin and vane.
She looked up to find him right in front of her, staring into her eyes, watching her every reaction. Her eyes began to get heavy and she looked away from Riddick not wanting him to see her pass out. As she moved her head to the side he forced her to look right back at him. He watched as her eyes started to dilate and roll. " Mmmm, They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep, all but the primitive side, the animal side" he said as he watched her struggle agents the drug. I wonder just how much of her brain will stay awake? He asked himself before his thought where interrupted " Why, why would a captain drug his passenger?"
" I never said I was captain." She could feel his breaths on her neck, and his hands on her wrists but she could no longer see him, but she new he was grinning some how she could feel it on her skin. Her body was going numb and her vision was blurred. " Wh ..Wh…What, are you?" she managed to get out before everything started to go dark. She herd him chuckle slightly before answering, "I'm Richard B. Riddick, escaped convict, murderer."