I'm in a small room, crowded with people. Vera and I are sitting on the floor, apparently being held hostage by these people, who are subjecting us to various types of torture. There's one guy who seems to be directing things, instructing the others to do-this or do-that, thinking up new things to make us miserable. The last one seems to be releasing these little plastic things that look like two tiny gears connected on a bar, one gear bigger than the other. Apparently they release them into the air and it makes it hard to breathe.

I see an opening and manage to push my way past everyone and escape out into the night, on a dark street in the city, but then I think that I can't leave Vera there, I have to go back and rescue her.