Clara woke up slowly. She was confused, dizzy, with a metallic taste in her mouth. She was lying on a soft but unfamiliar surface. There was hardly any light where she was and she found it almost impossible to focus on anything, if she could focus at all.

She made the effort to get out of bed so that the sound of metal, one that was not unfamiliar to her, reached her and she shuddered.

She sat up and stretched out her hand to find that a thick shackle was around her ankle and attached to it a l