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Chapter 4 - Where am I?

When he woke up, he was at the back of a van, there was no one else in there and he didn't feel like the vehicle was moving that much. He felt frightened, but he thought it couldn't be worse than being molested by his uncle, so he tried to remain calm. A few days passed, the masked men got back in the van and Ezekiel felt it moving again. He asked them where he was going but they answered in a different language that he didn't understand, so he closed his eyes and . He felt very uncomfortable because his feet and hands were tied together. 

A few hours passed; Ezekiel was still asleep and was awoken by the two masked men dragging him out of the back of the van. Ezekiel frantically began shaking side to side to try stop them from taking him out of the van, but his attempts were in vain, as he was tired and couldn't resist anymore. One of the masked men untied the rope around his ankles, so he could walk, while the other masked man led the way. 

Ezekiel looked around and was overwhelmed by the gargantuan mountains surrounding him, it made him feel so small and insignificant in comparison. At that moment Ezekiel began to question was there a point in living if his life was so meaningless and insignificant. 

As Ezekiel began drifting into deep thought, a strong wind hit his face, which brought him back to reality. Without him knowing, he had been walking for hours, his feet suddenly began to ache and he was struggling to breathe. Yet, what was most shocking to him was that he was no longer surrounded by such massive mountains, but now he was looking down at some of them. Despite the uncomfortable situation he was in, that realisation gave him a sense of comfort; a warm feeling that he felt he'd forever lost. 

Ezekiel looked straight forwards and saw a plethora of stone steps before him and at the top of those stone steps he saw two red brick pillars parallel to one another. The two masked men nudged Ezekiel forward to walk up the steps, but unlike before they didn't walk with him, but halted at the bottom of the steps. Ezekiel looked back to see what happened to them, but they were no longer there. Ezekiel looked back up the steps to make sure they weren't in front of him, then he looked around to make sure they were actually gone and there was no one there. He turned around and looked back at the bottom of the steps and saw no one. Once he verified that his eyes didn't deceive him, he didn't ask questions and charged down the steps in hopes of escaping. He sprinted as fast as he could down the steps and once he felt he was about to escape...