Editing The Chains of Slavery (section)

==Prologue==

He woke up with a start. Something had woken him from his restful dreaming. Some part of his subconscious was warning him of danger that his conscious had not yet recognised. He lay on his bunk slowing his breathing and his hammering pulse so that he could hear. As he calmed himself down the familiar hum of the ship around him came back to him. He was at the point of drifting off to sleep again when he heard it. It was the sound of a woman’s muffled scream drifting through the ventilation system. His heart hammered again as he leaped out of the bunk almost out of instinct to help that as his bare feet slapping on the cold metal floor as he landed. He move quickly to the hatch leading to the corridor and opened it slowly reducing the squeaking hinges as much as he dared. Glancing out to make sure it was clear before he stepped out into the corridor. The scream came again louder and clearer again from down the corridor. He moved as silently as he could as he headed towards the scream. He reached an open hatch ways leading into a cabin and peeked in. He could see the three occupants in the cabin. Two were woman; one was crouched on the floor with blood streaming from her nose with the other holding her protectively. The third was man who did not look like the crew. He was a large man wearing some kind of grubby uniform which he could not make out. The man was laughing evilly as he slowly advanced muttering profanities under his breath. He launched himself at the man slamming his fist deep into the man’s kidneys. His momentum as he crashing into the man through him hard against the cabins bunks. He heard a thud as the man’s head connected with the side of the bunk and felt him go limb as they crashed to the floor. He dragged himself off the man and gave him a sharp kick in the ribs as he stood up. He looked at one the woman who was looking past him as he heard something behind him. As he tried to turn something hard hit him in the back like a sledge hammer. The pain as excruciating and he cried out as he dropped to the floor. Another caught him along his ribs as he tried to curl up into a ball to protect him. The mersey of the blackness took him after two more hits and his consciousness faded from the world of pain that his body was being subjected to.