Caged by Clarissa Wild

Author:Clarissa Wild [Wild, Clarissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-21T18:30:00+00:00

Accompanying Song: “Kettering” by The Antlers

Lights circle me, and I wonder if I’m in heaven. It’s so bright and welcoming but very cold. Colder than I expected. The thirst is still there, but it doesn’t burn in my throat as much as it did before. I wonder if everyone experiences heaven this way, or if it’s just because I’m still on the way there. Floating up into the sky … that would be a sight to behold.

“I’ve got vitals,” a voice echoes close to me.

I wonder who it is. Could it be God? Or maybe it’s my sister … I can’t wait to see her again and hug her tight. However, the moment I try to picture her, all I see is a man, calling me from down below on the ground. A beastly man … roaring like a lion.

Cage.

He’s still alive. I can’t die. I can’t die, knowing he’s still in there. I’m not going without him.

I blink, forcing my eyes to open, forcing myself to continue living even when my body refuses to do so.

My limbs buzz, and the ground underneath me shakes. But that ground feels much colder than I remember it being and much harder too.

Something blocks the bright light above me, a shadowy figure.

“What’s your name?” There’s that voice again. It’s so warm and unlike anything I’ve heard in weeks.

My chapped lips part, but no sound leaves my mouth as I try to talk. My throat clamps up, and I cough.

“Take it easy,” the voice says.

When I squint harder, I can definitely make out the figure of a man but not one I recognize.

“Do you know what day it is?”

I shake my head, but my muscles barely move, still tensed up from the battle I fought against Mother Nature herself.

“July third,” he says.

July… I count out the weeks in my head.

That means I’ve been locked inside the compound for more than seven weeks.

Seven weeks … of my entire life.

I was gone … gone from the surface of the planet.

No one knows where I am.

And no one knows how to find us … where to find Cage.

I almost shoot up into a seated position, but something keeps me down. Straps around my body, tight and suffocating.

I shake my head, my eyes searching for a way out. I feel a hand on my arm, and the voice speaks again.

“Calm down. You’re not going anywhere but the hospital right now.”

Hospital? How?

A minute ago, I was lying on the ground in the blistering heat, and then the next, I’m in this cool, compact thing with a man I don’t know.

“You were in the desert, remember?” he says, cocking his head. “You’re lucky a passerby found you while driving along the road. She called us.”

Us?

I look around and notice the medical equipment, the badge on his shirt … and then I hear the sirens above me.

I’m in an ambulance. A real ambulance. With real people.

“We’re lucky she made you drink from her water bottle, or you might’ve died.”

I try to swallow, but everything hurts, and it’s so hard to comprehend what’s going on.

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