The room smells musty and the damp air has chilled her to the bone. Trying to open her eyes, the bright fluorescent lights make her head spin and throb in pain. "Come on you can do this, come on!" she thinks to herself. "You have to get up and find a way out of here back to Rusty, Ricky and Emily. And to Andy, my sweet Andy." Tears burn in her eyes and throat, but she wills them away. She can't cry, not yet. She attempts once again to roll into a sitting position. She keeps her eyes closed hoping that would help her to stay steady until she is sitting all the way up. As she slowly rolls, she feels something on her right ankle. She places her hand over her eyes and opens them slowly. The room starts to spin and a wave of nausea hits her. She places her other hand on the wall behind her hoping to find more stability. Slowly, she scoots back until she is resting against the wall behind her. Once again she opens her eyes. The effect is better this time, now that her back is against the wall. She slowly surveys the room around her.
Even without her glasses, she can make out the small room with cinderblock walls and a damp concrete floor. There is one window that at second glance appears to be a two way mirror. Her chest tightens at the thought of him watching her. There is no furniture just the dingy mattress she is sitting on. She then realizes that her pants are missing and what she felt on her ankle is a thick rope with a rather elaborate knot. The other end of the rope is tied to a metal pipe about 8 feet high on the wall across from her. The rope seems to have enough slack to allow her to move around the small room.
Panic seizes her chest and for a moment she has to close her eyes again. After a few minutes of practiced breathing and talking to herself she calms down enough to open her eyes again. She decides to try and stand. Scooting to the edge of the mattress closest to the wall she works her way up the wall, leaning on it heavily. Once she is completely standing a wave of dizziness and nausea hits her. She falls to her knees and vomits on the floor. She rolls back half on the mattress and lets the darkness take her once again.