It felt like days had passed.  The soldiers had come and gone, bringing food and water, and at one time a few changes of clothing for the two of them.  Disorientation had begun setting in, as time seemed to be standing still.  At one point Amanda was convinced she was going crazy, as she had heard screaming and gunfire filter mutedly through the ceiling above them, but then it had gone quiet again and she wasn’t sure if it had been the remnants of a dream or not.  It was only when the soldiers stopped coming that she began to worry.  She had started getting hungry, which meant the mealtimes had passed and they had been forgotten!  Wicked thoughts of them starving to death alone in this cage flirted with her sanity, and she had to force herself not to think that way, had to rema...

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