Girl, Taken - A True Story of Abduction, Captivity, and Survival by Elena Nikitina & Patrick Quinlan

Girl, Taken - A True Story of Abduction, Captivity, and Survival by Elena Nikitina & Patrick Quinlan

Author:Elena Nikitina & Patrick Quinlan [Nikitina, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Iliad Books
Published: 2017-09-20T22:00:00+00:00


Time passed – there was no salvation.

My senseless existence was hard to call a life. The days passed. The bleak light in the room was different in the morning from the afternoon, so I could tell that time was lapsing. Then the long night would come, followed again by the day. It seemed that a hundred hours could march by, slowly, like mourners at a funeral, and besides the idea of escape and the image of my mother’s face, I might not have a single cogent thought. Each day was an eternity. I was in deep space now, where time no longer existed. These men had broken me away from the world. They had broken me from my friends and family, and even from myself. I couldn’t imagine a person more fractured and splintered than I was.

The military action changed the gang’s plans. The war was coming – the front kept moving closer to the place where I was kept. Now I could understand why the area around the apartment building was deserted. The men had left their homes and joined the rebel forces. Before the war started, the women and the young children had moved to the homes of relatives in the remote villages. I was almost at the epicenter of the fighting. Terrible echoes of war – ground-thumping explosions, gunfire - could be heard sometimes, even through the glorious sound of the Gipsy Kings.

The militants went to war every day – they lived each day as their last. Aslan came to see me pretty often, making a short visit before he went to fight. I was begging him to bring me to the post office again and let me talk to my mom. Even if they took a pity on me and allow me to do so, it was not possible any more. After the storming of Grozny, the phone connection with Russia and the rest of the world was cut. The main post office building was bombed. Communications were down.

My presence there had come to a standstill – it seemed that I was being held in reserve. I still had value because they hoped to get the money after the war ended. But what if they lost their patience? What if the war never ended? I was afraid their plans could change at any moment. They would like me to forever disappear.

Real life was happening in the world outside – the thought of it constantly weighed on me. Here in the room, time had stopped. Life had stopped.

One day, the Gipsy Kings were forever silenced. The electricity was completely cut off. Loneliness, longing and emptiness filled my tiny world. I was alone, and all of the things that made up my past life were gone – now I had lost it all. My last link to it had been that cassette tape. I was untethered and alone.

I was sure that only one other person on Earth – my mom – shared the same feelings. There was no one to help me.



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