The Cottonwood Investigation

Chapter 3

As the men turned the corner to the last room, they were even more stunned then before by what they were seeing. This room had even more black smears and blotches of blood  than any of the others; along the floor was littered with piles of what it seemed to be rotting guts and feces of all different kinds. The smell was such a strong suffocating aroma, the officers had such a difficulty breathing that they coughed violently.  In this final poorly lit room, was a huge cage sitting anonymously on the far corner of the large room and a long metal table cluttered with unknown objects on the other. 

One of the officers warily walked over to the table. (Since it was the closest from the deastrot group). The man saw that the table had many medical objects including amputating saws, clamps, syringes, scalpels and then some. He also noticed other objects that seemed out of place. They were hardware tools and a variety of blades and other sharp objects covered in rust and blood. The officer backed away from the table in horror and ended up losing his balance in the process. As the man shreked in terror of the whole situation that he was surrounded by, there came a mocking snicker from the cage, which made all the officers had temporarily forgot about. 

As all the men focused on the cage, they noticed a silhouette that was slowly moving around, it seemed to be a women. It hit them that she was the one that had spoken earlier when they first entered the room. They were all  petrified for a good two minutes with chills running up and down their spines, until the figure spoke, "What, did you guys all shit yourselfs at the same time?" She seemed amused by the tone in her voice.

Officer Laurence finally snapped out of his daze that the others seemed to still be in. "What are you doing here?" he said in what it seemed as an attempt of sounding confident in his voice, but failed in doing so. At this point most of men had snapped out of it by their friend's familiar voice. By this point, the officers noticed that the women was getting up from the corner she had be sitting in and was coming closer to the edge of the cage, with the accompanying sounds of what seemed to be large chains being dragged. As she came closer to the edge you could see in the dim lighting that she only wore what seemed to be a ripped tattered dark gown with holes scattered all across it, that was pretty much considered a rag. It only came up to her mid thigh and barely covered both shoulders. As she came closer they could see she was covered in dried blood and had several wounds and scars,  only noticing more as she became more visible to see in the poor lighting.

"It's a pretty long story to tell, but pretty much i got captured and have been tortured here for a very long time, till one day I was just left and forgotten by my captures." She said as she slumped on the cage wall towards the men in a casual voice. "But occasionally I'll be sent down food, by that shaft up there if I'm lucky," she added as she pointed up to a shaft in the ceiling that she had mentioned with a small smirk.

The Officers looked at her in amazement and shock, they couldn't believe what they were hearing and seeing. They tried to convince themselves that she must be lying but failed to do so as there was nothing else to believe. Officer Laurence slowly and carefully walked over to the cage saying, "Well we got to get you out of there and take you with us." By now he already had made it to the cage, and was face to face with the women. He noticed that she was quite a bit shorter than him, by his guess she had to be about 5'6 at most since he was 6'3. The girl seemed to be studying the officer's face at this point most likely deciding if she could trust what he was saying to her was true.

 After a few glances at each other the officer became his direct leading self again and turned to the other two officers. "James, go upstairs and tell Officer Jones the situation and tell him to send for an ambulance immediately," he said in a firm voice, Officer James about in his mid twenty, a young man (that had started the force not to long ago), frantically ran back in the direction they came from to the stairs and fulfill what he had been told. "Now Joe, look for something I can take this lock and chains off with, on table full of tools." Officer Joe did as he was directed, even though he was a bit older than Officer James he was still pretty new to the force also. After a few moments of looking he found some bolt cutters. 

As the officers struggled to get the monstrous lock off the cage door, Officer Laurence asked, "By the way miss, what is your name?" Right before she could answer the lock gave way and broke off the heavy metal door to the cage. Officer Joe didn't hesitate on working on taking off the chains from around the woman's bruised ankles when the door opened. 

Quickly after, other officers came into the room with disgust and somewhat shock of what they had been dragged into, but quickly accepted the situation at hand. The officers went over the whole situations as they were descending the stairs; apparently the hispanic women had slipped away and escaped through a secret door leading outside. They all decided to let her go for the time being, for she wasn't the main priority. Just as Officer Laurence came back from talking to the others, to the small but medium size women, she looked up at him and said in a dry voice, "You wanted to know my name right? Well my name is Silvia."