A Person Unknown WHN: Caged Chapter 9/11
Caged Chapter 9 Johnny struggled to open his eyes. The light was fading but he could make out a pile of blankets, a bucket and a pitcher. He knew the space too well already, having spent time in it when Lucrece had hidden him there. But that time, there’d been a ladder to climb out. He tried jumping up and managed to get his hand flat on the underside of the wood of the hatch cover but it didn’t budge at all. He tried shouting but no-one answered. In the end, his throat sore from shouting and various aches and pains from his fall making themselves known, he sat on the pile of blankets and tried to think things through. First, he took physical stock of himself. He was bruised – shoulder, hip, knee down one side, but he knew from the way he’d been able to move around that nothing was broken. He undid the conchos on his pants leg and unwrapped the cloth his brother had bound round his calf. The bullet hole in his leg was not quite closed, which is why it