Initium novum [Completed - being edited/rewritten]

Chapter 35

I was waking up. As I opened my eyes and looked at my hand.
They were sewed up, and I had tubes connected into my body, through the tubes was going blood right into my hands.
I looked around me, I was in a white room, there was just a bed, on a left side was small table right next to the bed, on right a machine who was making noise and was shoving some numbers.
I noticed that on a table there were flowers, fresh flowers.
"I am dead?" I asked myself.
I tried to sit but it was not very hard. No-one else was in the room, and I started to panic. "Where am I, what is going on???!!!!" I shouted, but no one answered. I did have a better idea then to get rid of the tubes in my hands. But as I began to removing them, the door of the room opened and two men in white cloths and plague masks came inside.

"What do you want from me? Where is Valeria, where is Julius, where is my daughter?" I shouted but they didn't answer. They grabbed me and pushed me on the bed, I saw a third person coming to me, with a syringe.
"What is this? What are you doing?"

"Don't worry, it will help you," man with syringe said. But before he was able to inject me, someone came and called them out of the room. They left and someone came in. It was Tiber.

"I am sorry Antistia, I know you are confused, but please calm down. I will explain everything," he said. "Do you remember what happened?"

"Not really," I said

"Alright, you had an accident. You very angry and in that anger you broke a mirror. The glass cut your hands badly and you were bleeding. Valeria saved your life. You are now at Saint Sofia's, a special facility of Vigilum."

"How long have I been here?"

"You have been here for four weeks."

"Four weeks?" I asked with a hard voice. "Where is Valeria, Julius and Octavia? Do they know I am here?"

"Julius was offered a place as a secretary of Victor Maximus, he is working now. Valeria is at the mansion with Octavia. Valeria was the one who gave you those flowers. And yes, they know you are here," he said. "Oh, and healers say that in two more days you should be alright again. Just please try to be calm for those two days, he it will tell you more and will tell you something very important."

The two days were terribly slow because in the room there was nothing to do. Fortunately, Valeria came the other day, so I was not alone. She told me, that Octavia was assigned a tutor and that Julius took an oath and was accepted as a member of Ordo Illuminatis. Valeria was with help from Tiber meeting with all kinds of people to find out just common things, she needed to fit into this life. Valeria stayed with me to the second day because from what she told me, that we both needed to see what Tiber wanted to show us. On the second day, Tiber came to the room and said that is time.
Healers brought a wheelchair and I even though I said that I could walk they insisted that I will be sitting on a wheelchair.
Like that, we moved though corridor full of rooms to the elevator. In the elevator, Tiber gave a security card on a panel and then wrote some code, elevator began to move down. But it was not going on any of the lower levels which were seen on a panel, it went deeper. Suddenly, it stopped, the door opened and in front of us was a corridor, at its end there were metal door, with guards in full-body armours, paralysers around their belts and heavy rifle in their hands.

"Good evening, Lord Commander," said both soldiers.

"I wish to see the prisoner," he said.

"Yes, Lord." They said and opened the door.

Behind the door, I saw nothing more than a cube of glass surrounded by soldiers with rifles, who were waiting if the person inside would try to escape. We went inside, and Tiber called all of the soldiers out. They left and closed the metal door behind us. As we came closer to the cube, I saw who was inside. It was a man, high man, with a head without hair, with his body covered by tattoos. He was in chains, sitting I his cube. Tiber led us right to the cube, but it didn't seem that the prisoner saw us.