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H er head hurt. Why did her head hurt?

Heather tried to lift her hands to find out why her head hurt but couldn’t. They wouldn’t move. Her mind felt sluggish, slow for some reason she couldn’t place. What had happened? Where was she?

Voices she didn’t recognize started to filter through her awareness, but she couldn’t make out what they were saying. Her head hurt too badly.

She didn’t know how much time had passed before she realized her hands were tied. She tried to speak but could tell by the way the voices she couldn’t make out never stopped or changed that either she hadn’t managed it or what noise she’d managed, though she hadn’t heard anything, had made no sense.

Before she could force her mind to work, her entire body moved, she slid backwards, then fell. Now her whole body hurt, and she was no closer to figuring out what was going on.