Two - Astrid's POV

I awoke several hours later seeing as it was morning when the alpha was here and now it was extremely dark and thankfully I was mostly unchained from the wall. My hands and feet were unchained letting me move them around and get feeling back in them but the collar they had on me was still there but instead of the short chain that I was attached too earlier was now replaced with a much longer one letting me move around the cell easily. I huffed my annoyance into the dark wishing that this collar wasn't still on but I would figure out a way to get out of it and then out of this cell hopefully before I got too weak to do anything. Since there was nothing that I could possibly do in the dark even though I had very good eye sight in the dark it still wasn't enough when there wasn't even a small ray of light from anywhere, so with that thought I lay on the little cot in the corner and try to get some sleep and conserve my energy for trying to escape this hell hole in the morning.

I tried to but unfortunately I wasn't able to get much sleep even though I was so very exhausted. With the morning light streaming in from the small high up window it allowed me to make some things out in my still dark cell. I was able to see the last tray of food I was probably ever going to get as well as 2 bottles of water. I ate what was edible on the tray and sipped on my water to try to make it last as long as I could. As the sun got higher up in the sky it helped to illuminate my cell more and more letting me be able to get a good look around at what I could possibly use to pick the lock on this fucking collar to get it off before I even attempted to try and get out of my cell.

I was eventually able to find some thin piece of metal hidden under my cot which I moved away from the cell wall so that I would be a little more comfortable. The collar was kind of loose so I was able to hold on to the chain and slowly spin it so that the part that the chain was attached to was in front of me giving me a little better chance at feeling around to try and pick it with the thin metal. After many attempts and failures I eventually was able to finally get the damn lock open so that I could finally take the chain off but then I ran into another problem. I tried to take the collar off after I got the chain off but I couldn't which was troubling making me slump to the floor in defeat of trying to get it off and epically failing.

I carefully reached through the bars to try and unlock my cell like I did with the lock and chain that was attached to my collar but it was no use, instead I ended up slightly burning myself on the silver bars and breaking the little piece of metal I tried to use to get out. Laying on the cot in the middle of the room I stared at the ceiling in defeat, my hopes to ever get out of here and live some sort of normal life have all been crushed. I tried to ration my water the best that I could but I eventually ran out as the days started to blur together. I didn't know how long I had been trapped down here, I used to be able to talk to my panther and wolf but as the days dragged on their strength started dissipating with the fact that I haven't eaten or drank anything in a lone while.

I missed them dearly as I laid there unable to move off the cot thinking and knowing that this was the only place I had known all of my life and it was also going to be my grave. As my vision blurred and darkness started to creep in I started to hear sounds coming from what seemed like somewhere nearby but that couldn't be since no one knew that I was down here. As I fell more and more into the darkness the noises got louder and I thought that I could hear talking but I wasn't too sure since I finally fell into inky darkness that I knew and welcomed many times before. After a few hours I awoke to finding a tray of food in my cell and by the way it smelled it was fresh as well as some bottles of water. Not caring where it came from or how it got there I fell out of bed and crawled over to it and ate the food slowly as to not make myself sick as I sipped on the water relishing in the feeling of getting any sort of nutrition into my exhausted body.

It was still light out and therefore I was able to slightly see in my cell and I could feel that my body hurt a lot more then it should. I looked down at myself and see that my clothes are ripped in places and I have cuts and bruises all over my body letting me know who came into my cell and gave me food and water as well as a good beating while I was unconscious. I knew that Alpha Dean was an angry, deranged man who loved to beat me even when I was unconscious. Once I'm done with my food I take my water bottles to where my bed is and crawl back into it and pass back out from exhaustion. To keep myself sane I count the mornings that come and go between when the alpha brings me food and beats me and each amount of time gets longer and longer so it's a good things I've been trying to ration my food but that's not always possible except for the water which I am able to ration as best as I can.

I lost count of how many days it's been since the last time I was beaten and fed by Alpha Dean. I keep slipping in and out of consciousness but when I'm awake for the few minutes at a time I can hear noises like talking, yelling, and growling but that can't be true, I'm sure that I'm just hallucinating from the lack of food and water.