Chapter 7

It happened again!

Eliza groaned with despair as she rolled onto her back and looked up into the early morning sky.  Her nightmare was continued.  She was naked in the field on the edge of the woods again.  She’d gone to bed early without a drop of alcohol in her system, let alone any type of drug, yet the sledgehammer in her head was pounding even harder than the morning before.  Like the first time, she couldn’t remember a thing on how or why she was in such a state.

To add to her misery, along with the pounding inside her head, her leg burned and hurt like a sharp object had been dragged down it. A knife, perhaps?

Struggling against the acute throbbing that radiated from her skull into the rest of her trembling body, she forced herself to sit up. Her vision was still a bit blurred, but it was clear enough for her to see dried and crusted blood that coated the singular, deep scratch down the outer side of her left calf.  Th