Strife - The 100

Chapter 7

Anastasia POV

Thump.

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The sound echoed in my ears like a broken record. I could not tell if the sound was coming from a set of drums or the sound of my blood pumping through my ears.

Thump.

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I tried to open my eyes but it was like someone had stapled them shut together. My head was screaming at myself to open them, demanding my nerves to send a signal to my brain to move or just twitch the muscles around my eyes. But nothing. All I saw was pitch black.

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I felt my body swaying and moving but I knew that it was not from my control. I was being moved. But the question was, who and where are they taking me? Flashes of white bright light clashed against the darkness of my subconscious. It was like my brain is acting like a computer monitor who is receiving a bad signal. I didn't know if I wanted to stay awake or to submit to the darkness one more time.

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Hooves, the thought was sluggish in my mind as it took me a while what the sound was in the first place. The next word that popped into my head was horse. Like a puzzle missing the pieces, I tried to get a picture in my head of the last thing I remember. Yet, nothing was connecting through the raging and pounding headache hammering through my skull.

I could not keep up with time. With the way my body swayed through the motions of their actions, I could not tell if I was in the same position for seconds or hours. Time was irrelevant at the moment.

When I tried to open my eyes, they drifted on their own automatically when I felt my brain flipped for a quick second. All I could see is the dirt ground and the small patch of moss growing at the base of the trees. It would have been alright if the sensation of vertigo did not consume me and my stomach feeling like it made themselves inside out at the moment.

Grimacing, I slipped back towards unconsciousness.

When I was once again slowly getting my bearings together, I heard multiple whispers surrounding me. All sounding different. I quickly came to realize that I had stopped moving and that I was laying ontop of something as if I was a folded blanket on a chair.

" ... take ... tent ... nobody ... ," my head felt like it was underwater, my ears clogged with water to the point where I did not understand a single thing that was being said around me.

However, I did feel large and rough hands grabbing a hold of my body. For a second, I felt weightless until something hard slammed against my stomach. On pure reflex, I gasped for air as the air was knocked out of me as my head hung upside down once again.

The whisper sounded louder when they spoke again, sounding a bit angry but I still could not tell who was talking. Something held on to my legs as my arms swung around out of my control when I was being moved once again. I could feel my brain tilt to the side, making me even more dizzy with my eyes being closed.

The cold wind brushing against my skin all of a sudden stopped and I felt my body overheating as I was introduced to a very warm location. Still in motion, I thought I was falling when I felt my body slip. It soon took me a while to realize that I was being settled down. My head rolled to the side as something soft and comforting embraced my aching body like a hug.