Releaser

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Where am I?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>What happened?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Those are the questions I asked myself as I awoke from cryogenic sleep only to learn I'd been held prisoner for almost a decade.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The aliens who had abducted me from my home on Earth had kept me frozen in time until they needed me--or more specifically until they needed my body.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But I'm not the only one who was abducted.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>One of the other girls held captive with us keeps telling me fantasies of being rescued by another alien race - the Synths. She promises me it's true but I can't bring myself to believe her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>When two of them show up at the bars of our cell I don't know what to make of them. Are they friend or foe? Why do they want to help us?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>All I know is that I can't take my eyes from <em>him</em>.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>His sandy-toned skin is dappled white and I find myself wondering how it would feel to touch it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Our connection instant. It sears into my mind further when he reaches through the bars and touches my cheek apparently as smitten with me as I am with him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But I'm a prisoner here.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>He says he'll come back for me and he promises me a future with him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I'm torn with wanting him to return and wanting him to stay away. My captors are dangerous and won't let me and the others go easily. Every second my newfound Synth friend spends trying to rescue me puts him in danger and I'm not sure my freedom is worth his life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>When my worst fears are realized and he's captured too any hope I had of a future outside of captivity disappears. But I can't give up hope and simply wait for my captors to kill me with their vile experiments. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I need to find a way out of this mess before it's too late for both of us.</em></p>