The Cruellest Game
“I doubt it was more than a second or two before I ran to the child. But it felt longer.
I crouched down, registering that this was a little boy. He was whimpering pathetically, his pinched bloodless face stained with grubby tears. Automatically I began to make soothing noises.
‘You’re all right now, I’ll look after you, we’ll soon get you back to your mummy,’ I said.
But when I touched him I realized he might be far from all right. The child was freezing cold, and I wondered if it w...as the extreme cold that had rendered him half conscious. His eyes were open but he did not seem to be focusing on anything nor able to comprehend, or perhaps even hear, what I was saying.
I tugged at the binding cord tying his hands and feet together. It was securely knotted and I could not budge it without a knife or a pair of scissors. I looked around the stable. In spite of being half full of bits of old machinery there seemed to be nothing that I could use to free the cord, not without further harming the child.MoreLess
I crouched down, registering that this was a little boy. He was whimpering pathetically, his pinched bloodless face stained with grubby tears. Automatically I began to make soothing noises.
‘You’re all right now, I’ll look after you, we’ll soon get you back to your mummy,’ I said.
But when I touched him I realized he might be far from all right. The child was freezing cold, and I wondered if it w...as the extreme cold that had rendered him half conscious. His eyes were open but he did not seem to be focusing on anything nor able to comprehend, or perhaps even hear, what I was saying.
I tugged at the binding cord tying his hands and feet together. It was securely knotted and I could not budge it without a knife or a pair of scissors. I looked around the stable. In spite of being half full of bits of old machinery there seemed to be nothing that I could use to free the cord, not without further harming the child.MoreLess
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