Uuuuugh

My brain.

It feels like it’s melting…

What?

Where am i?

Am I...

Floating?

Is this heaven?

No, wait, this can't be heaven

I’m in too much pain. No this

This is hell.

NOOOOOOOO

I can't even seeeee

Nor can I move

Such deja vu

It’s just like when I was kidnapped by miss rat lady.

...

Wait.

“He-“

Coughing immediately as I tried to speak, finding my mouth to dry to even articulate

I’m thirsty.

My throat hurts

Everything hurts

Aow, stop moving so much

Wait, is this the fauns doing?

Have they kidnapped me?

Why?

I mean, I shot them.

Then why not kill me?

And... I should be in so much more pain.

I should be dead, my ribs were broken, and my lung pierced

Nothing about this situation should be possible.

What is happening

“Hello?“

Whispering out

“Human, stay silent. You must conserve your strength.”

I must what?

Wait, huh,

Why does he sound so nice, his voice is so pleasent.

Did I not attack them?

Trying to move again, I realised that I wasn’t bound, but unable to move.

Am I weak?

“Help“

I whispered out

Hearing talking, muffled but sounding agitated

Then I felt liquid enter my mouth, which I greedily drank.

Leading to the pain dulling and mind wandering

Oh, this is nice.

Mmhmm

It’s like a field of clouds

No. Of feathered beds

This is amazing.

Haaaa.

Hahaha

Coughing lightly, I felt how weak I was, but it did not matter anymore.

There is no pain.

No worries

Life is great.

Wow, this is awesome.

Everyone should feel this

Then visions came, giving me sight where I should have none

Where dark should be, I saw light

Where nothing existed, I saw

Dragons

And time passed

Going both fast and slow

At a snail's pace and at light speed

The Dragons spoke to each other.

Talking about me

Looking at me

Playing their games with me

And in the middle

Stood the Red Dragon

But something was wrong.

Where others saw, he could not

Where others spoke, he could not hear

He was

Alone

Empty in a lake

In a mausoleum

In a mountain

And time passed

The other Dragons flying away

Sayin their goodbyes

Then I felt something

Something warm

Moving its way through my body

And then pain came back

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”

The itching was far worse than anything I’ve ever felt

Ribs popping back into place

Creating new where some had to be discarded

Blood vessels bursting, only to then be reformed

Nerves severed, stitched together

Eyes mending, light blinding

All painful

All was felt

Hours could have passed

Days

Maybe weeks

But through it all

There was pain

And an itch that could not be sated

Mind not existing

Thoughts not coming

Only

Pain.

But through it all

One thought persisted

Making the pain seem

Less.

In comparison

“I’M SORRY!”

The scream echoed throughout the city.

Making all shy away in fear and terror

None could escape it

All would hear it.

The one doing the screaming, the human

She could not stop, even if she knew how terrifying it was

For she was not of sound mind

She was in great pain.

She was getting healed

By us Fauns

Who felt great grief

Our nature is of peace

Yet, we had brought pain on this human

And received our own.

One of ours had almost died

The greatest of warriors

Horn stronger than those of legends

He had been exposed to a great explosion

Stronger than anything we have ever seen

Nothing of the sort has ever been seen before.

But we knew that she was no danger.

She had acted.

Not out of a will to kill

But a will to live.

She was not the cause of the great blue fire.

No

She was merely a victim of it.

Like we all are

And in our great haste, we mistook her for something far worse

And to redeem our mistake

We have taken it upon ourself to heal her

To mend what should be long gone

But to do this

Requires pain

Immeasurable pain that few could survive

I am so sorry my child

We have made a grave mistake

We hope you live through these trying times

No

We beg you