Awake

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My head buzzes with activity. I wiggle my fingers and open my eyes. I'm in a dark room in a big bed a candle chandelier hanging from the ceiling gives the room a nice glow. there are slivers of light coming from behind the dark drapes over the windows. Everything is silent.

I try to sit up and immediately collapse back on to the pillows, my head pounding and my vision blurry.

"Oh dear," says a voice. "Now you lay back down, I felt a cool cloth being laid over my eyes.

"Ow," my voice cracked

"Here dear," and I felt a wooden cup being held to my lips. I gulped down the cool water soothing my parched throat. I open my eyes and see the person who helped me. It is a middle aged women with an angular face and kind gray eyes

"Who are you? Where am I? I got stabbed and- what happened?" I blurt out. I look down at my chest. A jagged wound about the size of a coin sat on the right side of my chest . little stitches ran around the side of it

The women smiled "I'm Martha and you are in Unerag. Yes you got stabbed and its a miracle your alive. I'll go get someone who can answer your questions.Everyone will want to know that your up." and then she turned and left, the door shutting with a thud.

..... To be continued


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