Chapter 2

Darkness, breath, temperature. Emma woke up from unconsciousness. Before her eyes were a dark space, she panicked. Her mind seemed to have lost consciousness, slight dizziness causing her to wince in pain.

 

Gradually, Emma adjusted to the darkness around her. Her consciousness had begun to recover. She was probably sitting in a large cargo van, like a container used to transport export goods. She could hear the rustle of the wind against the branches of the trees, surrounded by perhaps only this freighter on the road.

 

Emma couldn't move her arms and legs, which were tied so tightly that her wrists hurt. Emma tried to move to the side, and she could feel that she bumped into something soft…but with human body heat.

 

Right! She's not alone here. There are others!

 

"Who are you?" A voice came from the darkness behind her, a gentle voice that seemed to come from a girl.

 

Emma blinked the light of the moon outside, creeping in through the openings. They allowed her to see the figure of the girl sitting behind her.

 

"Who…who are you?" Emma asked.

The girl did not answer immediately, but hesitated for a few seconds, then responded timidly.

 

"Lena, are you from A?"

 

"How…how do you know?" Emma is a girl who lives in A City, as Lena said. But how does she know?

 

"Because of your accent. I have a friend who lives in city A, and he has the same accent as you." Lena answered very naturally. Other than her, it seemed that everyone else was unconscious. Emma was the only one who could talk to her.

 

The girl named Lena moved slightly closer to Emma. Emma could smell the scent of jasmine on this girl's body.

 

"Lena, where are you from?" Emma asked softly, wanting more information about Lena. At least it might give her some helpful information.

 

"Me? I live in Telanka*."

*Telanka: Unreal city.

Emma didn't know where Telanka was, a name so foreign to her. She only knew significant cities in the world, such as New York, Oslo, Paris, and Toronto, ... the city named "Telanka" was the first time Emma had heard of it in seventeen years of her life.

 

Lena was not surprised by Emma's attitude. She explained.

 

"It is a small city near the border of our country, to be more precise, it is near the border with Italy. Telanka is an unremarkable city, but countless streets are busy with freight cars running through the day and night. Emma, ​​I was surprised to hear your accent. A is a city far away from Telanka, and it seems you have been away from city A for a long time."

 

The information Lena said made Emma's whole body soft and powerless. Telanka? Is she in Telanka? Why did all these bad things happen to her?

 

"I met a boy in the subway. He said he had lost his mother, and then I asked a man nearby to help him. But he was gone when I returned to where the boy had sat. I…I was drugged…." Emma said, recalling when the man squeezed her. For a moment, she felt desperate. She was wrong, wrong in trying to be independent, trying to adjust to life outside.

 

Lena smiled softly, and in the darkness, Emma could hear the giggles of a truly desperate woman. Emma doesn't understand. Why is this girl laughing?

 

"You are so lucky, Emma. Not only was I drugged, but I was also raped by them as soon as I was kidnapped. Emma, ​​are you a virgin?"

 

Lena doesn't lie. She still remembered that horrifying moment, the three hungry tiger-like men swarming her body to exhausting her. Lena was no longer a virgin before she was caught…Traffickers like the girls who are virgins. Selling them to prostitutes in Thailand or Cambodia will get very high prices. Traffickers rape women who are not virgins before they are exported to other countries' borders.

 

Lena guessed maybe they wouldn't be sent to Thailand or Cambodia this time. It would be Italy.

 

After being raped by traffickers, Lena overheard their conversation. They have a 'client' waiting in Italy. The girls in this container will be taken to the customer's place and then raped and imprisoned. After this mission is successful, a large amount of money will go to the traffickers, and girls who are not virgins like Lena… will have another hellish gate opened.

 

Emma knew her life was over. She was from a princess living in a castle to, within a few hours, a tool to satisfy the lusts of disgusting men in Italy. Emma's eyes seemed to have filled with tears, a line of water rolling down her pretty cheek. Lena glanced at the despair in Emma's eyes. How pitiful the fate of teenage girls to fall into hell on earth.

 

"Lena, how long have you been here?"

 

"Maybe… twelve hours. Perhaps we have gone out of Telanka, or worse, out of the country and into Italy. I guess we'll be taken to that 'client' mansion shortly."

 

The situation was not very good, and they were locked in a large container truck, buried behind large cardboard boxes. Even if this car is searched, these cartons will hinder their chances. Lena sighed, desperate.

 

"I have been away from home for dozens of hours. Lena, who do you live with?"

 

"I live with my mother and sister, and we have a small house by the river. Every day passed very peacefully. But I am a person who often disobeys my mother, I want to go to another city to be independent, but things are not so simple…as you know, I was kidnapped by them on the way to Pinasta*."

 

*Pinasta: Unreal city. Near Telanka.

 

"And I live with my mother and father, I have a younger brother, but he often goes with my father on business trips. My family…not happy. I wanted to be free but ended up being imprisoned somewhere else. Lena, will my life forever be in an invisible glass cage?" Emma is not much different from Lena and is also very desperate right now.

 

"Do you want to escape?"

 

Escape? Lena, can you do it?

 

"How?"