Trouble
Kari
My eyes opened slowly to the sound of a metallic humming around me. It took a moment to adjust my bleary eyesight to my surroundings. I was in the back of what I assumed to be some kind of vehicle, a vehicle moving at quite a pace by the sound of the humming.
I was numb all over, I tried to raise myself to a sitting position, but couldn't. I tugged on my arms again and found my wrists were tied together, then found they were tied to my legs which were pulled up behind me. I groaned uncomfortably, then realised there was a balled up rag in my mouth, I found I couldn't get rid of it as a thick cloth had been secured over my mouth and pulled back behind my head. I fell back and groaned again as I realised I was effectively immobilized.
I must have aroused the attention of someone as I heard footsteps approach. I struggled to look up to see who it was; I was welcomed with the leering face of Arukenimon.
'Awake are you?' She sneered sarcastically. I didn't bother attempting to answer; it wasn't as if I could.
'Nothing to say? You brats are usually full of yourselves.' She laughed to herself. I sighed, at one point in the past I would have tried to come up with a comeback, but that was then, now it was just sad. She noticed my lack of reaction with some frustration.
'Don't you want to know what we were doing back in your world, or how we came back?' I merely shrugged my shoulders awkwardly while stuck lying on my side, then shook my head slowly. Arukenimon looked suitably antagonised now.
'Don't patronise me!' She shouted. She leant down to me and picked me up by the scruff of my shirt.
'Mmmphh!' I cried in pain. My legs pulled down my arms at a painful angle.
'That's more like it.' She hissed glaring at me from behind her glasses. She then dropped me and I fell on my side again.
'Get used to where you are; you'll be here for a while anyway.' She continued then walked away again. I resigned myself to calmly lying still, taking in my surroundings. I looked round the interior and saw an assortment of objects and clutter. I struggled to turn my neck to look behind me, as I did I saw a pile of what looked like broken shards of glass. Glancing ahead of me tow where Arukenimon had emerged earlier I made sure that no-one was approaching, and then shuffled my way, painfully slowly, to the scattered glass.
I was rewarded when my hand clasped onto a shard of glass, I immediately started to rub away at the rope binding my wrists to ankles. When the rope finally gave way I had to stop my legs from springing outwards and kicking a wall. Using my newfound almost freedom of movement, I shifted onto my knees at turned the glass shard up into the ropes binding my wrists, it was not long before they gave way too. I flexed my fingers with relief as I tried to restart the blood circulation through my wrists. Then I started to untie my ankles, furtively checking the doorway. Once the ropes fell to the floor I carefully climbed to my feet and made my way to the doors at the back of the compartment, the doors were unlocked, so cautiously I opened one, while keeping an eye behind me, then noticed I had been right before.
I was in some kind of vehicle, travelling quite fast over a dusty track, there were trees to the left and right, and a line of bushes to the left. Deciding it did little good to hang round; I jumped from the back of the vehicle and landed with a heavy thump in the middle of a bush.
'Mmmphh!' I mumbled. I pulled myself to my feet rubbing my back painfully, then remembered the cloth I'd been chewing on for the past half an hour, I pulled the cloth down from my mouth, then spat the balled up rag from my mouth while taking in several relieving breaths of fresh air. I waited a moment to gather myself, and then jogged back in the opposite direction of Arukenimon and Mummymon.