The young girl's pleas have died out and she's now rocking and murmuring quietly to herself. I finally locate a door at the far end of the room.
"Yes!" I cry in elation. But before I can open it myself, the steel door hits me in the face and I'm pinned to the nearest wall in a nanosecond.
"Get off me!" I yell at my assailant, a giant of a colossal six and a half feet, built like an ox and with the skin the colour of strong coffee.
"Who are you?" he snarls at me, his grip tightening. He has a faint Jamaican accent.
"Get off of me!" I repeat, struggling against his insidious hold,
"Listen, kid, you answer me or you don't go."
Isn't . . . isn't this guy the person who put me here? He sounds like he's in the same position as me. "I'm Holly. Happy?"
"Do you know anything about this?" he demands.
"All I know is that I randomly woke up in this block-metal room, I find an exit, and the next thing I know I'm being subjected to the not so tender mercies of some sort of caveman!" I spit at him.
He shoots me a dirty look but lets me go. "You know nothing?"
"Nah, I just confessed how I managed to chuck a hundred-and-fifty kilo male and an eleven-year-old girl into some kidnapper's haven," I snap at him.
He abruptly spins on his heel. "Stay out of my way if you know what's good for you. I'm getting out of this place."
I scowl at his retreating back.