Terrible discomfort thrummed through my entire body when I came to consciousness, I was laying on a cold and rather hard surface. Pushing myself up despite the pain it brought to my lower back and shoulders I opened my eyes, I was hit with a wave of dizziness, so I blinked a few times. Once the dizziness faded I realized that I couldn't see not because of my headache, or my eyes adjusting to light but, because there simply was no light. I pulled my cold limbs in toward my chest not enjoying the mix of aching, and what would probably soon be hypothermia, setting into my bones.
I ran my arms across my opposite biceps in a sad attempt to gain warmth, I quickly realized I wasn't wearing my coat, in fact, I wasn't wearing much of anything. I groaned at the thought of my nicest clothing torn to shreds on my body. However in the dark I couldn't even tell if those were the clothes I was wearing, and the fabric was far too torn to be able to recognize the articles of clothing by touch. I tried to stand despite the cold seemingly clinging to my soar joints. I stumbled blindly through the cold and dark area searching for a wall or anything to hold onto to give me an idea of my placement. The echo of my pathetically shuffling feet the only indication that I was in some sort of cave, great. My stomach turned itself inside out, I wretched the leftover of whatever I'd last eaten onto the ground, I let escape a groan followed by a desperate gasp for breath. I kept up my slow pace until I felt a rough cold rock wall, yeah, I've somehow ended up in a cave, soar, cold, and nearly naked. I turned toward my left and felt along the wall as I continued my slow shuffle, hoping I wasn't headed deeper into the cave I found myself lost in. As well that I wasn't getting myself deeper into trouble and definitely not toward whatever had probably dragged me in. Fuck, I walked on eyes closed as I couldn't see anyways, trying to sharpen my other senses perhaps, or get a clearer image of how I'd ended up in here. Vague memories of traipsing through deep snow coming to mind, and desperately peeling off my coat that had gotten stuck on a tree branch. A man, tall, with white hair... a witcher, I ran to him, I sprinted, but why?
Tripping over my own feet I fell to my knees, quickly bracing myself with one arm, the pain wouldn't have been so bad if I weren't so cold. But as it was, the pain throbbed shooting up my wrist and through my legs, ankles growing stiff under my weight. I shifted myself to lean against the wall, huffing out quick breaths.
I tripped as I moved through the snow as fast as I could. I scrambled to get back up, running despite my aching lungs. I tried to yell, scream a warning but nothing left my oxygen deprived chest. I'd made it into a clearing in the thin woods, I was so close. Everything was dark again.
I took dragged a loud breath of air into my lungs, eyes flying open at once. Finding myself still in the dark, now in quite the pathetic fetal position. I whimpered softly as I forced myself to stand back up putting my hand once again along the wall and continuing on my way racking my brain for the rest of the foggy memory to no avail. I struggled on knees buckling and soar, my skin so cold it felt as if it was burning. I nearly fell again as my foot kicked into a seemingly large and mushy lump. I reached my hand up gently touching the mound I'd run into, it was soft, like a nice expensive pelt, and insanely warm compared to the air around me. I froze, my body desperately begged to cling onto the mound of fur but, my brain led me to realize the mound was moving. Breathing. I held my breath taking a few steps back. In the dark I couldn't tell what I'd stumbled across but the size of it lead me to believe I shouldn't stick around and get acquainted. I kept backing away before realizing I should probably go around the creature, find the other side of the cave and continue on my search for the exit.
Take a quiet deep breath I took a few steps to the side, trying to subtly shuffle out of the creatures reach while it slept, I turned, and tried to continue my travels across the cave walking forward, however my first step caused a massive cracking sound and I tumbled into what by the feeling of it, was probably a pile of bones. I froze once again, on my ass this time, still blind, in a pile of bones hoping beyond hope that the creature hadn't woken up, to my dismay however, I heard deep growls, from the sound of it, the creature was not happy to be wakened. I felt a hot breath of air on my face followed by two heavy slashes across my cheek, from right above the right side of my chin to next to my eye, pain bloomed into the cuts, quickly spreading to the surrounding skin. I was now blindly pushing bones, dirt and grime across the floor as I scooted backwards as quickly as I could away from the beast. Unfortunately it had a major advantage, sight. I felt a heavy weight bat me to the side, I felt myself tumble and roll. I no longer knew which way I had been headed, nor where the creature stood. I scooted desperately backwards just hoping I was moving away from the attacking monster. Suddenly a new weight pushed down on my chest crushing me to the ground, making me struggle to breathe as the tips of claws easily sliced through the skin on my stomach and chest, this things paws must have been twice the size oh my head. I desperately shut my eyes tight, despite not being able to see in the first place turning my head to the side, before suddenly being drenched in what felt like thick and sticky hot water, the weight quickly tripling. My lungs were being crushed under the weight, I was suffocating, but the weight was too much for me to push off. i struggle to no avail, wasting my energy, my limited oxygen.
