(Karsten)
With fingers trembling and dread gnawing at me, I clicked open the video. Never had I experienced such emotions. They were shredding my body as my eyes focused on my screen.
And there she was, pure and innocent, tied to a chair, blindfolded and gagged.
"Ara–taaa!" Her name left me in a fractured gasp…my fingers went taut against the cellphone until they hurt.
I watched her, my fingers shaking, crawling towards her face.
My blood boiled over, and my pulse thundered in my ears, hot with my wrath.
This was the kind of torture which I had never been subjected to, the emotional torture where I had been rendered utterly helpless.
That control I craved like a lifeline had been snatched, leaving me completely powerless.
At the mercy of fate. I always thought I could control it, but the universe worked in its own way, and it had brought me to my knees.
