My head hurts as I lie on the ground. My body is lying against the hard concrete floor, and the wall. My back and muscles ache. The cold from the concrete seeps into my skin, through my thin clothes and chills me to the bone. It's like being surrounded by millions of air conditions all turned to the coldest setting and having your clothes filled with ice. 

        It could be 120 degrees in this room and I'd still be freezing cold, but it's not 120 degrees it's probably closer to -120 degrees. I'm. freezing to death, I've never felt this pain before, and I hate it. I've been through and seen some pretty wicked things, but never anything like this. My lungs feel like deflating balloons. No matter how much air I inflate them with, it's never enough and I'm always left quickly gasping for air. Nevermind the fact that I haven't been able to move in Hades knows how long and haven't eaten anything substantial in even longer. I haven't eaten at all in a very long time as I can no onher move.

I long to be able to move again, to take a shower, and not be covered in my own urine and grime. I want to be able to see and to move from my circle of water. My brother can't cross it, but he is always there watching me. I think I'm going crazy.

                I hear these voices and then I see a door open, and someone throws something down the stairs, but I can't reach it. I can't move. I put my hand up remembering the Star Battles movies I used to watch as a kid. I remember the...'i can't remember... ummm..... Oh judi? Maybe. I don't know, it's like not just my body but my brain is deteriorating. I find myself not being able to think as well anymore, all the plansI had formulated for escape which wouldn't work unless I could contact Alex anyways, were gone, disappearing from my mind. "I give up" I think, I hate this, maybe I do want them to just kill me.

'Oh honey,' I hear in my brain, "don't think that please, it makes me sad." 'Mom?' I think, 'wow, she sounds so close, maybe it's my time, the malnutrition and neglect are really gonna kill me.' "Hahahahahaha" I start laughing hysterically, my mind frazzled and my brain eroded away. "Finally, death has come to take me from this hellhole." 

          I start laughing again louder this time, I can't stop, I'm going crazy at the idea of truly dying. It makes me gleeful to leave but then I think about the others and who'll get them out, protect them, and heal them, if i'm not there. I think about it and stop laughing. I really want to leave, and if I'm gonna die anyways, then what's the point?

 I start to wrack my brain for ideas looking in every nook and cranny of it, like I'm searching for the last piece of a puzzle, just one final idea to get me out of here. I find it, when I hear a sound, the first sound other than me, the door opening, and food falling to the floor, the only sound I've heard in days. I start to cry. Maybe my prayers have been answered, it's the alarm bell, meaning someone is trying to or has escaped. 

I hope they make it out, I do, but a part of me is still sad they are leaving me behind. I close my eyes, forgetting about the puzzle piece I found, it involved all the kids, and I'd have to convince them and myself that it's not just suicide. It doesn't matter though, it's not like I'm getting out of here without Levi and a knife to the neck and a tentacle suffocating me.

Then, my brain stops and thinks, not about death or sadness, about the fact I can hear the sound, and that there's light in the room. "W-wha?" I gasp out loud, my voice crackly, and my throat hurts like i've just swallowed a cactus, the laughter really took a toll on my body.

Then I hear a voice call out, "Elissa, are you ready, did you get the note?! Come on!" 

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