Cecily was imprisoned in a jail cell alongside other enslaved individuals, all of them eagerly awaiting their time on the auction block. Their time in captivity was spent in miserable and desperate silence, the constant threat of auction looming over them. As the hours gradually passed by, the uncertainty of their fate hanging heavy in the air. Cecily's thoughts were interupted when suddenly the slave trader took her to the stage to show her off and endorse her like a product.