Unknown Girl
I woke to the sound of chimes, soft and silver, like nothing I'd ever heard before. Or maybe I had. I couldn't remember.
I couldn't remember anything.
Panic clawed up my throat as I tried to sit up, only to fall back against something soft when pain shot through my entire body. Every inch of me hurt—muscles, skin, even my bones seemed to ache from the inside out. I blinked at an unfamiliar ceiling made of interwoven branches that formed elegant arches above me.
Where was I? Who was I?
"She's awake," a voice said from somewhere to my right—light and musical, yet ancient in a way I couldn't explain.
I turned my head, fighting through the pain. A woman stood watching me, her features too perfect to be—I searched for the word, found it missing, then somehow caught it anyway—
