Shepard didn't know where she was or how she got there. All she could see was a hideous hand with long and brutal nails touch her right cheek lightly. Then she felt a tightness around her neck, sharply cuting the air flow to her lungs. The confusion of it all was followed by fear and desparation. She could not escape, her hands where tied to her back, it did not matter how hard she pulled, the restraints on her wrists where stronger than her.