Through the Eyes of the Ravens

Asleep

         I woke up in a hospital bed, my wrists and ankles strapped to it. My parents brought me here about a month ago. They think I'm going crazy, and honestly, I'm starting to believe them. Ever since my fourteenth birthday, I've been seeing a bunch of weird stuff, like giants, valkyries, and the undead warriors of odin, einherjar. I've never seen them before, yet knew what they were. 

        "Audrey," My mom started.  "There's something you need to know." She handed me an official-looking document after getting the doctor to unbind me. I read the title. It was an adoption certificate stating that my real name was Audrey Ansuz and I was adopted at two years old on September ninth. 

          I saw a flash of an image and jerked my body back. " Are you okay?" My dad asked me. "Yeah, I'm fine," I lied, still confused. The image flashed across my vision again, and this time I held onto it. It looked like a capital F with the lines on the right facing down diagonally. A name came into my thoughts. Rune. This is a rune. But what is a rune?

         More thoughts filled my mind and I could only grasp so many. Valhalla. Odin. Jötuns. Alf seidr. Asgard. Æsir. Vanir. Ragnarök. Yggdrasil. Thor. Loki. Suddenly, two ravens started pecking at the window. Names came into my mind for those, too. Huggin and Munnin. Thought and Memory. then a word came into my thoughts that startled me more than the rune. Father.

         I knew better than to try to jump up , but i wanted to. I wanted to get out of here, to run away from this so called "Boston Psychiatric Hospital". More like lunatic asylum. "Honey, I think you need to eat and get some rest. We'll talk tomorrow,"Mom said. That was her cue to leave. i had forgotten that I was still holding the certificate until she plucked it out of my hands. Putting the paper back in her purse, she walked out. When they brought my food, I ate knowing they broke a sleeping pill onto my food. After, I laid down and fell asleep, not trying to fight it. 

                         Little did I know, that was the biggest mistake of my life.