Saturday, 6 April 2024

Find Her 2 (Pages 69 - 219)


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Against all odds Flora is abducted again. After the death of Gould, she comes home and her mum is there. When her mother returns to Maine, she goes to bed, and when she wakes up, she sees a shadow, and the next thing she knows she is inside some vehicle and moving.

It is DD that finds her gone, and at once she calls Samuel Keynes, the victim advocate. Both of them check the flat, and the strange thing is that all the doors and windows are unlocked, but nothing seems to be out of place. What surprises DD is to see Flora's wall covered in cut-out articles about missing children and young, especially Stacey Summers. When they talk to Flora's landlord and lady, they discover that the week before someone came, pretending to be an inspector to examine the flats. 

Flora wakes up to total darkness, and she examines the place, creeping all over the place. Her hands are chained, and then she discovers that there is a coffin just like the one where she was kept during her captivity, and at some point she thinks there is someone inside. Giving the coffin some sharp whaks, she breaks the coffin to find a small recorder, and that is where the breathing sounds come from. The next time she wakes up, she can smell food. It is chicken, and again she finds the coffin and again she hits the coffin to destroy it, and gets the chicken and a bottle of water. Flora feels that her kidnapper is watching her through a two-way mirror. Flora wonders how her kidnapper could get into the room without her noticing, and she starts planning. First, she needs a weapon, so she gets splinters from the wooden coffin, and then she gets two rips from the nightgown she is wearing, and ties them around her nose and mouth. If her kidnapper uses some gas to render her subconscious. Then she hears a noise, and what she imagined in the darkness is a door or window, opens, and Flora attacks the person. Then she realises that the person is a woman, and she then supposes it is Stacey Summers. Flora realises that she has injured her, but instead of stabbing her in the stomach as she had planned to do to the kidnapper, she has stab her in the hip, and in the dark she manages to extract the splinters of wood. The girl just whimpers but doesn't speak. When after asking what her name is several times, the girl says that her name is Molly, which is the name that Flora's first kidnapper made her use.

In the chapters about the past, now we know that the narrator is Flora and not Stacey as I thought first. From that narration we realise that Flora experienced what is called Stockholm syndrome. The kidnapper, Jacob Ness, finally allowed her to leave the coffin, but some kind of intimacy came between them even though he treated her hideously. She had several opportunities to escape or ask for help, but she didn't try anything. 

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