What did you notice freed from your restraints, arising from the bushes unaware of thick coat of grease and mud making you look the camo dressed nightmare? Taken in the dark, unconscious to how many came for you slept painfully in dream with a large knot at the side of your shoulder. Did they have to take you down so hard,they could have asked and perhaps you would have gone nicely? No that would never have happened and you both knew it.

One sweeping eye took in what was visible in the low light. Several slept but two stood watch. They hadn’t noticed my coming to, talking quietly in a language I didn’t recognize. Why now, what made me valuable or useful to their planning, such that they would have to take me alive. Not wishing panic I calmed my head from thinking about the thousand things I could not guess. Instead I focused in on the quiet speech to see if there was any data or clues I could gather.

A mystery tied together in the throbbing pain in my upper back and shoulders. I dared no move, justifying another bashing, instead slowly tested the tape and twine with which I had been bound. Nothing moved, it wasn’t fancy but sure was tight. I looked for something sharp, some corner, glass or mirror to try and free myself, just then the door opened and a lithe stealthy manned stepped into the shallow dim. I couldn’t tell for sure but black hair and gaunt features like Abraham Lincoln.

I squinted as he looked my direction hoping he hadn’t seen the whites of my eyes in the darkness. He threw something on the table, a sack, not paper but cloth. Could not tell what was in it, both men looked up, saying nothing they set the bag aside and we all waited until someone had something to say, but silence was all we encountered. I suddenly realized the stench, sweat and sour meat. Something in that bag was putrid.

Having no idea what they awaited nor the reason for my capture, I decided to exercise the one control I had at the moment that was to use the time to recover and rest. My head pounded and though my heart rate had calmed considerably I almost fell asleep which may not have been a good thing for someone who might have a concussion, but it should relieved any fear or impatience. Before I began to daydream I heard someone calling from outside the doorway.

Soon, I would know the purpose for my abduction.