It was Jon's cop.
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I could only stare up at him as he untied the gag from around my mouth.
Before I could think of anything to say, he dropped the gag and straightened. I craned my neck, watching as much of him as I could see as he walked around to the other side of the log. I felt his hands doing something by my wrists, then a pulling sensation as he started tugging on the the chain dug into the wood between my cuffs. I let out an involuntary moan as it pulled on my already hyper-extended arms, but it didn't stop him from whatever he was doing.
Then, all at once, my arms were free.
I fell like dead weight. I couldn't move my arms at all, so I fell straight onto my face in the remaining wood under the log. It hurt, but no where near as much as my arms hurt when I tried to move them to pull myself off the ground. Waiting for the feeling to come back, I lay there, paralyzed for a few seconds, before I could make myself try again.
Slowly, I managed to crawl off the wood, until I was laying mostly on cement.
I realized then that Jon's cop hadn't waited for me, but had already walked away. I could see him over by the seer now, on the other side of the dais.
He was freeing her, too. He held some kind of tool in his hands that he was using to saw through the thick chain between her cuffed wrists.
Seconds later, she fell as heavily as I had, letting out a similar cry.
Unlike with me, though, he helped her out from under the log. Then he was doing something to her neck, and I realized that he was using the same tool to saw through the collar she was wearing. It took him less time to cut through that.
When the collar came free, I saw her wrap her fingers around her neck, smiling at him. Even from where I lay crumpled on the ground, I could see that she had tears in her eyes. She nodded to something he must have said to her, something I didn't hear. Then I saw her using some kind of sign language, right before he helped her rise shakily to her feet.
Traumatised or no, and even with his help, she seemed to have a lot better control over her body than I did. Still, seeing her upright inspired me to try for the same. I only made it to a sitting position though before I had to rest again, panting.