past

A dull ache pulsed behind her eyes, reverberating against her temples. Awareness flooded into her mind, followed by the flashes of broken memories from the day prior. The beach, the vagrant, the inn and the two men— those moments she could recall with clarity, but after that there seemed to be some blurring and bending in what she remembered. Whatever had happened after she had been taken seemed to fade and scope in detail.

Darkness enveloped the room, thick and plentiful. One solitary light flickered in the corner furthest from the bed. It cast a small halo of dim light that did more to deepen the shadows of the room than to illuminate it. Shifting under the weight of the blankets, she registered the spongy softness beneath her. It was a strange sensation. A fragmented recollectio...

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