Hostage situations are the worst as you are completely at the mercy of your captor. The only hope to hold onto is knowing that you serve as a bartering tool. You are the one thing that a desperate soul has to negotiate with; your life is what keeps his life going. However, this does not mean you will receive any sort of care or comfort. Your comfort is not a priority- the escape, the freedom, the demands- these are all that matter. Rope may be replaced with rusty wire. Knots will be tighter than usual. Blindfolds will squeeze so snuggly around the cranium that you’ll feel your pulse in your eyelids.

I won’t even go into what rights you are denied; in a hostage situation you are reduced from being a human being to being just a tool. And tools don’t have basic needs in a desperate man’s mind- tools do not urinate, do not get dehydrated, do not have hunger.