She pulled against her restraints uselessly. Tears burned down her face. "Please let me go!" she shouted, "I won't tell anyone!" Charlotte screamed as the pain increased, burning through her veins. She continued to plead and scream in fits of sobbing until fits of darkness pulsed before her eyes. Finally her head hung slack as she lost consciousness.
In the darkness, she dreamt of her home in Japan. She saw her parents searching every room. She saw her grandmother weeping in Charlotte's empty room. And then the pain seered into her dreams, burning through her home, turning every room into ash and tragedy. She woke again to the pumping liquid ripping through her body. She stopped pleading. There was no point. And in the pain, she discovered a moment of clarity. She knew she would die and it was okay... it would be okay...