Chapter Seven Summary

Meg awakens. This time, she is not blindfolded. But she is in a very difficult predicament. She has been left in an abandoned warehouse. Worse, Meg is is a dank basement with no seeming way out. The lone, dirty light overhead offers little comfort from the cold, gray walls encasing her. She groggily shakes off the after effects of the chloroform and tries to gain her bearings, realizing she must act quickly before her kidnappers return to check on her if she wants to escape.

Meg notices there is a window high at the top of the basement's walls. She surveys the basement. There are wooden pallets haphazardly scattered around the inside. She realizes that if she can lean them against the wall at the precisely correct angles, she can construct a makeshift ladder leading up to the window and possible...