Rescued: A Nyssara Story

Chapter 19

NYSSA: My heart wretched in agony during that whole ritual. To see Sara so lost. To see her be so gone...

I've waited quietly in my passage-ways for her to be escorted back to her room. I didn't have to wait long, for I can now hear them now approaching.

I wait for the others to leave her and then sneak in her room to find her sitting on her bed staring at nothing.

"Sara?"

No response

"Sara? Please speak to me."

No response.

I inhale and exhale slowly. "Ta-er al-Sahfer?"

She blinks, scrunches her eyebrows, then looks at me with a blank stare.

"Sara? Are you alright?" I ask as I walk toward her.

She looks lost still. I wonder if I could talk some sense into her...

I sit next to her. "Do you know who I am?" I ask, fearing how she will reply.

She contemplates for a moment. "I am Ta-er al-Sahfer. I serve Ra's al Ghul."

She doesn't seem to know who I am. She's still in her suggestive state. "I am Nyssa al Ghul, Heir to the Demon. You serve me as well."

"I serve Ra's al Ghul and Nyssa al Ghul," she says blankly.

My heart aches. To hear her say my name like that...it pains me. How could I get her out of this trance?

The vial. Perhaps it can clear her mind. I'm not sure how well it will do since the ritual was quite long ago.

"Ta-er al-Sahfer, I command you to drink this vial."

"Yes, Nyssa," she says as she takes to vial and drinks it. 

I watch her as the liquid starts to take effect. She scrunches her eyebrows and looks at me.

"Sara?"

She clenches her jaw. "I serve...I...I..."

I take her face in my hands. "Your name is Sara Lance. Do you remember?"

She clenches her fists. "I...don't know..."

"Look at me," I say. When we lock eyes, I swear I can see Sara in there. "Please, come back to me."

"Nyssa..."

"Yes, belovèd. It is me. I am here."

Suddenly, I am struck across the face. It all happened so fast it takes me a bit to realize that Sara had punched me.

"Bloody hell. Sara?"

She looks angry. "That's what you get for lying to me."

"You mean...you're alright?"

"Yeah," she says with fire in her eyes. "I'm fine," she says putting my vial in her cleavage, for she apparently did not actually drink it just now.

"Why are you so hostile towards me all of a sudden? And why did you trick me?"

"You lied to me."

"I have not!" I say as I stand up from the bed.

She narrows her eyes. "Nyssa..."

"What? I am certain that I haven't any idea what you are talking about."

She stands and faces me. "Nyssa al fuckin Ghul. You lied to me. You told me that everything was gonna be alright. You told me that I was gonna see my family again."