the razor-sharp pendulum was descending at an alarmingly rapid rate. it wouldn't be long before they all met their slow, painful doom. ❝ highest: #329 ❞
i now lay upon my back, and at full length, on a species of low framework of wood. to this i was securely bound by a long strap resembling a surcingle. it passed in many convolutions about my limbs and body, leaving at liberty only my head, and my left arm.
distance between pendulum and ground: fifteen feet
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
j u n g k o o k
as soon as jungkook felt himself regain consciousness, his eyes immediately snapped open, the events from just before had fallen asleep coming rushing back to him.
we were drugged again, he thought, his heartbeat quickening. and we all fell asleep.
the last time they had been drugged, they had awoken to find that they could now see, and that they were no longer forced to stagger around blindly in the darkness. what would be new this time?
his answer came in the presence of something around his right wrist and chest. jungkook tried to lift his right arm, only to find that he was unable to. frantically, jungkook peered down at his wrist, his stomach dropping when he saw that a thick piece of cloth bound his right arm.
he was now lying on a sort of wooden platform, his six sleepin companions in a line besides him. jungkook appeared to be at the center of the line, with three men on either side of him. all of them were strapped to a long piece of wood, which ran across the span of the room.
oh shit, jungkook thought, trying again to free himself from the bonds that trapped his arm and chest. now we can't move.
as he stopped struggling and fell into a resting position, he found himself staring directly up at the ceiling, the swinging figure of the pendulum catching his eye.
"even if it reached all the way to the floor at some point, as long as we avoided the very center of the room--where it would hit--we would be fine."
namjoon's words came flooding back into jungkook's head, but what little comfort they had given him earlier was now replaced by pure dread.
they had thought that they would be able to avoid the pendulum.
but now here they were, bound to a piece of wood that ran along the expanse of the center of the room. they were directly below the pendulum, and if what small bit of calculus jungkook remembered was correct, according to the laws of vertical motion, he, at the spot right below where the pendulum reached it's lowest height, would be the first to receive it's deadly kiss.
--------
please vote, comment and follow! :) thanks so much for reading!
two short updates today, because i love procrastinating when it comes to homework.
also, this book got 100+ reads? WTF?!?! i seriously thought i'd get like 5 reads lol
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i can't express to you how much this means to me <3
