Knotinghill

Episode 14: Ropemaker

I looked towards the woman hog-tied on the floor next to me, she was not older 
then my mother (Erica), and not younger then Stacy (Andrea’s Daughter). She was 
dressed in pants and had a flannel shirt on. Her hair was put in a ponytail. 
- We can’t stay here forever. It is too accessible from the road. But it will 
do for the night and most of tomorrow. Erica said.
Andrea digs out the maps from the bag, and made room on the table next to the 
television set. She laid out the maps, she and Erica sat down looking at the 
maps, while Stacy was looking for food. The woman looked at me, her eyes was 
wide open. She had figured out I was a male dressed in women’s clothing. I tried 
to look away, but still her beauty made me look at her. She most have thought I 
was some kind of perverted freak, and sort of she was right… but to my defense I 
was forcefully an crossdresser. 

At the night. The sun had gone down for the day. The woman and me were put in 
bed (separate beds), and I could hear that the television set was on in the 
living room. 
The living room. All three women were siting around the table, eating on some 
sandwiches. The news was on. It was an interview with Mr. Tom B. Raider: 
Assistant DA. He was interviewed at the burned down cabin. He told the camera 
how he and Mr. Ben Dover from the State Police had been trying to rescue a 
kidnapped woman, and how they had been held at gunpoint. Tied up and gagged. How 
they had feared for their lives. And that they now had issued a nationwide 
search for these women. They showed some phantom scratches on the television. 
The women were feared to be armed and dangerous. A reward for $100.000 was 
issued. 
The women laughed. An Erica said that Ropes has never hurt anyone, and that 
males should wear it more often to prevent them from doing stupid things. More 
laughs. 
I am not sure when I dozed off, but I was brutally wakened by a bucket of cold 
water thrown at me by Stacy.
- Wake up lazy. Time to move on. She yelled.
She helped me up, and we (the other woman and me) were marched into the living 
room. Stacy found her gun, and pointed at me while Andrea untied me. I massaged 
my limbs. I was told to drink a lot of water, to do my business and put on some 
comfy walking shoes. All the time I was under the watchful eye of Stacy. 
I put on some sneakers that were in the closet. I drank about a bottle of water, 
before I went to the bathroom to relief myself. 

I was retied after I was done. I was tied with a stick between my arms and back, 
kind of the “prisoner of war” type tie that I had seen in the old movies. My 
mouth was gagged with a scarf wadded up, and put between my teeth, while other 
scarf was keeping it inside. The woman was tied the same way as I was. She seems 
to be very flexible and strong. Then we went outside. The car was dumped with 
fuel, and a timer made by an electronic stopwatch and wire was fixed to light up 
the fire at a set time. We were marched into the woods.

After a few hours up into the woods, we could hear a loud explosion. It was the 
car set on fire. A large smoke mushroom that we could barely see the top off was 
visible behind us. We were on a path that should leads us up into the mountains, 
toward “freedom”. According to Erica, we were set to reach a cabin called the 
Ropermaker’s cabin, that had belonged to an famous Ropemaker. It was night 
before we reached it, and to everyone surprise it was inhabited. Erica went up 
to the door, and knocked on. The door was open by another woman. She was 
pointing a rifle towards Erica. 
- Are you okay Daria? She yelled.