I woke up in a dark room with splitting pain shooting through my head. I sat up on a comfortable bed, not the reality I expected. Where was I? I placed my cold hands on my cheeks which were still swollen from crying. She was dead. I watched her die a surely painful death. It’s not like I admired or cared for her, but I couldn’t believe she was gone. Not only that, but she also died trying to protect me. I had hesitated, sure that her growls were aimed at me, but she lunged straight for our attackers. It wasn’t a real battle though. Neither of us were trained in the least bit. I expected theem to kill me as well, but instead, my last alert memory held the vision of a cloth being held against my mouth. Shortly after, everything went black. Now here I sat in an unfamiliar room, alone.
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