Light slowly filtered into the room as the large iron door was opened, revealing a large bipedal creature that closely resembled a human with the exception of its long arms that upon closer inspection ended in long pointed claws that shone in the dark. The sharp metal appeared to continue up its arms and into its shoulders. The creature approached a cage near the front of the room and at the top of a large pile. It grabbed the cage with three of its long pointed fingers and pulled on it harshly, causing the cage to topple and land on the ground with a harsh crash. The creature dragged the cage through the room and back to the door with the boy kicking and screaming inside. A lock in the door clicked into place as the creature closed the door and left. That same creature was the one who kidnapped me.
I've been in this same dark room full to the brim with cages stacked on top of one another for what I can only assume, by counting meals, has been thirteen days now. I've kept track of how many times that being has entered the room, this makes thirty nine times, including when he dropped us off in this wretched place. It comes in three times a day, once in the early hours of the morning to bring in more people, once to give everyone their own tiny morsel of food, and one more time to snatch a new person away into the night.
It came one sunny morning to take me and my sister from our beds and brought us to this place. I haven't seen her since, and she hasn't once spoken out in the dark since our arrival. I can only assume what tragic fate befell her.
The room itself is stacked nearly floor to ceiling with hundreds of cages stacked one on top of the other. It's absolutely pitch black in here as there doesn't appear to be a single window to let any light in. I myself am crammed into a cage three piles from the front with two people above me and three beneath me. The cage itself appears to be adorned with one singular set of locks. No matter how hard or what angle I pull at though, the lock won't budge in the slightest. Even the kids that do manage to break their lock don't get very far as that creature is immediately in the room and upon them the moment they crawl out of their cage. The last kid to leave their cage had their chest ripped open and their internal organs hurled across the room.
It's becoming harder and harder for me to imagine any better of a fate given to those who are dragged away during the night. I've begun to lose any hope of ever making it out of this place alive.
