☉ELDRION
Once more, my eyes creaked open, the chamber slowly materializing through a haze as I surveyed the shadowy expanse above me—the dim ceiling of this ominous chamber. The eerie stillness pervaded, unsettling as always, while my mind battled to cut through the fog that clouded it.
Bound tightly and secured to the leather mattress, barely accommodating my form. Metal sashes cinched across my wrists, thighs, and legs, with screws fastened to them, digging into my skin, paralyzing my muscles. A frigid numbness had seized my body for a while now, an icy sensation that whispered of impending demise, yet death remained elusive, perhaps a god out there was unwilling to claim its due – perhaps, I was likely still obstinately clinging to life. Refusing to die even as some metallic contrapti
