Chapter 171: Morning Surprises Take Two
A light breeze tickled Elin, waking her up. At first she felt like she was dreaming still. That the sun couldn't be up already. At least until she started to feel just how sore her body was. Primarily her arms and legs. A dream wouldn't hurt so much.
Not that she was surprised. She had moved around a lot the night before. Plus her fight with the doppelganger wasn't exactly easy to forget. Then there was also how exhausted she felt through much of the night. Although, she couldn't understand how she got so exhausted during a few points of the evening and night.
Such as when she healed Samantha, she felt herself just get drained. She didn't understand how it happened, and it hadn't occurred before with anyone, so she couldn't say what it could have been. Especially with it being just an arrow wound. One that shouldn't have taken so much energy to heal.
Elin wanted to get up, but with how sore her body was, that proved to be a challenge for her. Partly because she really didn't want to move at all, at least not if she could help it, but partly also because she wasn't used to having any part of her sore, so it wasn't an experience she had dealt with much. Meaning that she only could tell that she didn't like the sensation. Not what she could do to make it any better or just go away.
Yet, her hunger outweighed her reluctance to move her worn out body. At least once it made itself known to her. So, with the help of the wall and windowsill, she carefully stood up and climbed out of the window.
While she knew that there would be a dining room somewhere in the manor, she didn't know where that was in relation to her current location. All she could tell was that she was in a room somewhere in the manor, likely in a back area away from the busiest parts of the day to day activities.
However, she knew that she was by an open window, so she'd be able to at least walk around to the front of the building. Which would make not only getting to the busier parts of the manor, but also to where she'd have an easier, and quicker, time finding where she could get something to eat.
As she slowly climbed onto the window sill, she was a little surprised at seeing that it was about her own height from the windowsill to the ground. She hadn't expected it to be that so high up. Not that she really had had the presence of mind to have noticed when she'd climbed through the window the night before. Even when she'd returned after having drank the stamina potion, or whatever it was, she'd been too focused to get back in to help Kim. To stop her from having to face four doppelgangers at once if she could.
Yet now, as she could see just how high up it was, she couldn't help but start to feel a little trepidation. Not because she had issues with heights, but more because she wasn't sure about if she should just jump down or try to let herself down slowly.
Either option made her stomach twist with worry, given how her body felt. She looked around her with the hope that there would be another option that she could see, but nothing came to mind with what she could see.
When she looked back to the ground she swallowed, clearing a knot that had started to form in her throat. Of the only two immediate options that presented to her, jumping down gave her stomach more knots than climbing down. So, she carefully began to lower herself, but she'd only made it to having her lower half outside the window, the bulk of her weight pressing against her waist, when her arms gave out and she fell the rest of the distance, her chin slamming painfully on the windowsill as she went down.