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Authors: Matt Hults
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“
Welcome to the party,”
says Phil snidely.
“
So nobody knows anything
about this? About why I saw someone just get fried right in front
of me.”
“
You
saw
that?” Jane sounds
shocked.
I nod. “Managed to drag my blindfold
down a bit. I saw enough.”
Phil gives a half laugh. “Resourceful
little devil, isn’t he? That’ll get you a one way ticket to hell
around here, kid.”
“
This
is
Hell,” says Jane with complete
conviction.
“
How long have you been
here?” I ask, though it’s Phil who butts in.
“
Longer than you,” he
says.
“
Then you must have seen
who’s holding us.” I round on him. “Who did that?”
Nobody says a thing.
“
Oh, come on! This is
ridiculous.” I stand, almost putting my hands on the bars again.
“You can’t just kidnap a bunch of people and then––”
“
Why not? Happens all
the time abroad,” Phil comments. “Places where
his
lot come from.” He nods over at
Kavi.
The dark skinned man smiles. “With one
breath you betray your ignorance,” is his only remark.
“
We’re
all
ignorant in this place,” Phil
replies.
“
But how did you wind up
here?” It’s another question, and I expect Kavi to say something
about that, but he doesn’t. This time he asks me one of his
own.
“
How did
you
?”
It suddenly strikes me I don’t know. I
had thought I’d been out on the town or something, and just got
completely smashed. But I couldn’t remember a thing about the
previous night, the previous
day
(what time of day is it anyway?), let alone how I ended up in
this cage. “I… I think I was drugged.”
“
Well,
of course
you were drugged!” barks
Phil. “It’s how they get you here, and put you inside these
things.” He points at the cage.
“
But why? Are they after
money?”
“
Looking for a
ransom, that what you’re thinking?” Phil grunts. “And why exactly
would anyone pay money to get
you
back, Chrissie-boy? Loaded, are you?”
I hang my head. “No.”
“
Me either. How about you,
Jane? Fitness instructor’s pay suddenly gone up by a few million in
the last month or so?”
“
Piss off,” says
Jane.
Phil grins wearily. “Wish I could,
sweetheart. Really wish I could.”
“
So what do you do?” I
enquire out of mild curiosity.
“
That’s for me to know and
for you to find out.”
“
He works in an estate
agents,” Jane informs me.
“
Thanks a bunch,” Phil
grumbles.
“
What about you?” I ask
Kavi.
“
Aw, who gives a shit,”
Phil breaks in before he can answer. “That was in the outside
world. In here you’re just another plaything.”
I look again at the empty cage. “Why
did they do that? Burn that person up, I mean.”
“
Nick,” Jane says quietly,
her eyes glistening. “His name was Nicholas.”
“
They don’t need to give a
fucking reason,” Phil explains. “They’ll just come in, douse you
with petrol and strike a light.”
“
Phil, please,” begs
Jane.
“
Especially if you make a
fuss, draw attention to yourself,” he carries on, ignoring her.
“Just like Nick did.”
It was Jane’s turn to glare now, at
Phil. “He didn’t do anything wrong. He was just––”
“
He asked one too many
questions,” Kavi points out, looking at me.
Phil nods in agreement. “Every time
they came in, he was at it. What the fuck did he
expect?”
“
Come in? Hold on,” I
say, switching the subject, “so you
have
seen the people holding us
then?”
Phil considers how to answer that one.
“They don’t exactly let us get a good look at their
faces.”
“
I don’t
understand.”
“
You will,” Kavi
promises.
“
Nick didn’t do anything
wrong,” Jane continues, as if the conversation hasn’t moved on at
all. “It wasn’t because of that––they just enjoy it.” Without
thinking, her hand goes to her neck and now I see the scar. It’s a
fresh one, still quite raw. “They enjoy hurting us.”
“
But why? What could they
possibly gain from this? What do they want?”
“
That,” says Kavi, “is
precisely what Nick wanted to know.”
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