When I open my eyes, I’m lying on my back in the water again.
My whole body feels weak.
What’s going on?
I thought I’d become stronger, after my transformation.
When I open my eyes, I’m lying on my back in the water again.
My whole body feels weak.
What’s going on?
I thought I’d become stronger, after my transformation.
I don’t know how long I sleep.
There is no sunrise and sunset down here to help measure the passing of time.
But I feel rested. I feel good – physically if nothing else.
I feel healthy.
Why am I remembering all this now?
How pointless…
Hmm? Wasn’t I dead?
I distinctly remember dying.
Warm sunlight hits my face. It’s quite comfortable.
I yawn widely and open my eyes. Nerys is in the bed with me, using my body as a hugging pillow. She’s halfway on top of me, her leg thrown carelessly over my waist.
I sigh inwardly.
She says she comes here for my sake so that I won’t feel lonely during the night, but I’m starting to think that she’s the one who can’t sleep without holding onto me.Continue reading
I wake up, this time not only with a piercing headache but with such a dizzying array of aches and pains that I wish I could lose consciousness once more to escape from them.
But I know that if I do, I won’t wake up again.
I force my eyes open. Even that hurts.
I don’t dare to move anything else.
I walk for several more hours.
Well, I’m more limping than walking…
Fortunately, I haven’t encountered any other demon. Neither have I seen any trace of my captors.
The corridor continues to shrink. By now, it’s so narrow that I have to inch along sideways, like a very slow, very clumsy crab. My chest rubs painfully against the wall in front of me with every step I take. Nerys always said that I should be happy to have such a figure at my age, but right now, I very much disagree.Continue reading
“Mn…”
I wake up with a piercing headache, waves of pain crashing against my mind, then receding, only to come back again even stronger than before.
…Am I still alive?
I was sure those people were going to kill me.