No One's Chosen by Randall Fitzgerald

Author:Randall Fitzgerald
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fantasy, epic fantasy, elves, drow, strong female lead, character driven

Aile

Her ears came back to her first. Before she could see or even feel much, she heard the sounds of birds singing. They were incessant and shrill and made her angry. She did not know how long it took of hearing the birds before she realized she was not dead. It was the first proper thought she remembered, before that there were only birds.

With her wits returning, she began to take stock of what her body was capable of. If her parts could move, there was no sensation to tell her as such. She commanded her brain to swing her arm wildly but she neither heard nor felt anything. It was difficult to keep track of time in her state. She drifted in and out of consciousness. Or she imagined she did. One moment there were birds and the sound of a muffled voice— a man, she thought— and the next, there was the silence of a night with a few odd bug chirping away.

She counted away the hours and the days as best she could. When the fullness of a week had passed, she felt for the first time. It was an alarming feeling, numb and imprecise. There was the vague sensation of movement and she felt a passing warmth at the back of her neck, like someone had lifted her with a hand under a blanket. The feeling spread out down her back and up to the top of her head. She was being moved somehow. She could not be sure how, exactly. What did they mean to do with her? Aile screamed for her brain to grab at something and swing blindly but there was no response. Something cool passed her lips. She could almost taste it. Fresh water? She was being nursed, she thought, and sleep overtook her again.

The night came. Aile returned from the fog of her healing to find her eyes had returned and her ability to smell as well. It was an hour before the blur began to recede and the details of the room came into focus. She was under a window in a wooden room. She could see the head of the bed she laid on was finely built and with her feeling returned she knew it was soft enough as beds went. It was hard to be discerning, given the situation. Out of the corner of her eye she could see a pair of dressers and a tall cabinet. The room was otherwise bare, it seemed. She was covered as well and assumed she had been disrobed, though the feel of the blanket was misty at best. A desire to look around the room proper consumed her.

Aile began willing her neck to move, even the slightest bit. She sent the command over and over to no avail. "Damnable body," she thought. She would not be bested by her own vessel. Over and over and over she insisted that her neck move and it resisted. She had lost all sense of time and concern for her whereabouts.

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