The thin hemp rope was torturing the boys bound arms.
It had been looped tightly around their biceps and crossed wrists behind their backs. Their wrists were pushed up high behind their backs and tied off to their biceps, while their elbows and forearms tied together. The thin rope was lake a hacksaw, digging into their muscular arms, cutting deep. Any movement made the ropes dig deeper into their muscle. All they could do was scream in their deep gags.
Grabbed by their bound ankles they were dragged into the abandoned house and dumped on the floor, their body mass crushing their arms as they lay their panting. The sweat was burning their eyes. Ransom photos were taken. Then the trap door was removed to an old hiding place in the house, about 7 feet deep and 6 by 6 in size. The grabbed Robby and shoved him feet first down the hole.
Jason was pushed down last. With the three bulky boys shoved in a small space, they felt crushed. They looked at their fear fulled sweat covered faces.
Their sweat dripped onto each other. Their eyes looking upward.... as the hatch was replaced and nailed in place, plunging them into total darkness.
Their gagged screams
echoed off of the walls of their prison. Their panicked bodies jerked in the ropes, now slashing their skin. Hours passed... the air was stale, their breathing labored, their arms dripping blood behind their backs....
There they stood, not knowing if the ransom would be paid, or if they were buried alive....
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