The Witch Trials

~17~

  I feel someone grip my waste and plop me over a shoulder. I pry my eyes open and see that I am being carried away from my spot in the woods by a tall man with a black mask over his face. My head is still buzzing and hurting an unbearable amount so my vision won't focus well and I have trouble talking.
"Help." I croak but I can barely hear myself. I give a weak kick or two and flail the best I can but the man doesn't even respond. Before I realize what's happening I'm tossed in a large dog crate in the back of a car. The door is shut and I can barely tell what's going on before the car lounges forward and my face smashes into the bars hardly. I try to wipe the blood off my face but my hands seem to be tied back, I don't remember that happening. Suddenly the reality of the situation sinks in and my heart starts to beat faster. I need to get it together and figure out a way to escape. I try to focus on the buzzing in my head, hoping I'll be able to figure out why it's happening. The stone, the buzzing, what the heck has my life become? I listen closely to the buzzing and my eyes flutter shut. I see Jakson, Hailey, Adam, and Claire all sitting by a dock. I look around to see if I can tell where they are. A bump sends me flying in the air and causing me to hit my head on the top of the cage breaking my trance.
  "Who are you!??" I yell at the masked figure driving the car. "Answer me!" I yell louder. I don't feel so dizzy and my strength begins to return. I kick the cage as hard as I can but its not even dented. I can feel that my magic won't work here, besides the only thing I'm very good at are visions. I pinch my eyes closed and try to relax but nothing happens.

~Hailey's POV~

    "There are only three out of twelve of us here! You think everything will be okay!?" May is most likely dead, Adam was almost caught by witch hunters, and who knows what's going on with Rowen, she's missing! We need to regroup. I think we've already been shown that splitting up doesn't help. Let's find a safe spot, then start to get the group back!" I pitch a rock into the water.
  "Rowen's missing? May might be dead?! And you guys wonder why I didn't want to come with you guys." Adam stares at the water dramatically.
   "You'd be dead if you didn't." I snap back.
   "Hailey's right, but we need to get May and Rowen back first, they're in danger if they're still alive."