Terror (Part 1)

-Karen-

A rough hand covered my mouth and nose which startled me and a sharp punch to my stomach reconfirmed that horrid feeling of doom. I felt slightly dazed as I was quickly dragged into a hidden servant tunnel. Where did this tunnel come from? I watched as the armoire room disappeared with the closing of a hidden servant’s door as I struggled against my captor. Let go of me! “Make sure to close it tight so they can’t follow us.” Lewis’s voice paralyzed me with fear that it made breathing even more difficult. Conor! Conor!! There was pressed a dagger against my neck as I was being dragged further and further away from safety. Oh no… He is going to beat me to death or right to the very edge of it. “Grab her ankles idiot!” Lewis hoarsely snapped to someone that now had a tight grip on my ankles as I was carried further away from Conor. “We have to hurry before they realize she is gone!”

I hadn’t ever been permitted to work on this floor unless Lizette needed help, so I was not famil