SERAPHS: THE AWAKENING

CHAPTER EIGHT

The sweet fragrance that filled the air was what her senses picked up, first. She didn't know where she was but her body was at peace, she was on a bed made of marshmallows. Nora's eyes fluttered as she opened them to stare at a cream-coloured medieval bricked ceiling. The ceiling had long purple plants, draping down from them. She averted her gaze from the ceiling to row of beds with white sheets on her right side. She saw the same arrangement to her left with an empty arched doorway beside each bed. She lifted her head from the bed to see the doorway beside the bed opposite hers'. She saw the most beautiful garden with colourful flowers that made her nose twitched in flavours of pleasant scents. Radiant ray of faint pink light shined in softly through the doorway.

At the far end to Nora's left side was a long transparent box, hung on the wall. Inside the box were small-sized bottles containing different colours and texture of liquid. Opposite the transparent box, Nora saw a huge wooden door. She tried to sit up on the bed, hoping to get to the door. The bliss Nora woke up with was replaced with sharp pains, shooting up from different sections of her body. She winced and relaxed her muscles back on the bed to ease her pains.

When standing up from the bed was no longer an option for her, she took the time to think. Her last memory was a black-liquid dripping mummy, strangling her. Keelan- he saved her, cradled her in his big firm arms. The creaking sound of the door opening paused her thoughts. A woman with a dazzling pale white skin was approaching her bed. She had a braided, waist length, platinum blonde hair with sharp golden eye colour. The woman wore a full length and fitted lilac gown, shaped like a leaf.

"You are awake," the woman said with a glistening smile. Nora made another attempt to move but the woman held her down with her warm hand. "You should not try to move. The Wisps worked all night, detoxing the venom in your body but you still need to rest," she said in a melodious voice.

"Where am I?" Nora asked quietly. This was not Meadowville Medical Centre. This place was heavenly.

"Eldon. In the Elves Kingdom." Nora did not notice the woman's pointy ears until she heard, elf. "You were brought here last night by the Bloomfield boys." The elf woman moved to the arched doorway beside Nora's bed and motioned her hands as if she was calling someone.

"Bloomfield?"

"Yes."

Nora had no idea who this Bloomfield was, she would get to that later but first— "What happened? Why am I here?"

The elf turned back to Nora and tiny, luminescent, blue-white ovoid, swam in from the garden, following the hand movement of the elf woman. The pearls of light looked like smoke but a bit solid in the middle. "You were poisoned by a Zafrire demon." She guided the lights till they landed on Nora, spreading out to different parts on her body.

Nora felt her pains subsiding the second the lights touched her. The tingling sensation made her body tremble slightly. "What are these?"

"Wisps. They are the reason you are still alive," she kept waving her hands over Nora, guiding the Wisps. "Their work is almost done," she smiled at Nora. "You will be fine. He was very worried about you."

"Who was?"

"The Bloomfield's eldest son. He would not leave your side. I forced him to leave this morning so that he can rest but he refused. He is waiting for you outside. I will let him in when I am through." She guided the Wisp over Nora's body for few more minutes before she waved them outside. "Thank you," she said to the Wisps. "You will feel better in no time," she said to Nora. "I will let him in now, only for a few minutes, your body still needs rest."

"Thank you."

She touched Nora's arm with care before leaving the room.

Nora was trying to sit up on her bed when she heard a loud bang at the door, it was Keelan, bulldozing through the door.