ElaraWhen I opened my eyes, I didn’t know where I was. For a moment, the ceiling looked too smooth to be real. It didn't look like the dirt floor I remembered or the dark room I had been trapped in. This wa looked like it was a bedroom...and a really beautiful one at that. I blinked slowly, then everything around me felt blurry, like I was looking through water.My whole body felt heavy. I tried to move my fingers, but they twitched like they belonged to someone else. When I finally managed to turn my head, I saw thick white bandages wrapped around me.They were wrapped around my arms, my shoulders, my stomach, even part of my neck. Some of them were soaked with dried blood and some were still wet with new blood.I braced myself for pain, but I felt nothing. Instead, I felt… numb. Not the kind of numb that happens when a limb falls asleep. This one was deeper, like someone had taken a large part of me, pulled it out and left a cold empty space in my chest.I tried to breathe deepl
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