Left

Bound wrists, elbows and ankles.
Gagged with their sweaty torn shirts.
They were dumped into the back of their truck
And locked in.

The sun beat down on the truck and it became an oven.

As they sweat they tried to reach each others' knots.

It was useless.

They knew how to bind them.

All they could do was sweat and bounce into each other as the truck treked through very rough roads.

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The reached our destination.

The slid open the cover of the pickup.

There were were

Dehydrated.

Half dead.

The cut the ropes from our wrists, arms and and ankles.  They cut the gags off.

We drank bottled water.

I put some water on the ropeburn that circled my arms above the elbows and my wrists.

When we were taken out of the truck we say the
abandoned mine entrance......

And we knew we were fucked!

Now they tied our wrists in front of us and replaced the gags.

They marched us into the mine and we walked a few tenths of a mile when we came to a metal gate.

They put our backs against the gate.
Put our arms high above our heads.
And tied our wrists to it.

Then, slowly and methodically they bound us to it.

Our arms at the forearm, elbow and bicep.
Our necks.
Our chest and our gut.
Our legs at the thighs, knees, calves and ankles.

And then the gag, this time stuffed into our mouths, and rope between our tied bound our heads to the gate.

WE COULD NOT MOVE AN INCH!!

Then they left us.

The lights slowly flickered away.

We were plunged into darkness.

We struggled and squirmed to no avail.

It was cold and damp.

Our sweat now became cold as we shivvered
in our bounds.

And we had no way of knowing
if we were just left.....

to slowly die.