Chapter 102: Did you save me?
Just how much longer? I’ve been walking this path for so many days, yet I still can’t find the exit from this endless darkness. Where am I? How did I end up in this place?
"Huh! Water... I need water..." His knees buckled, and he fell to the ground, the thirst gnawing at his throat.
Suddenly, a sharp, pulsing pain in his head grew more intense with each passing second, and he gripped his skull, wondering if it would burst from the pressure.
He squeezed his eyes shut, praying the pain would fade, begging for relief. But no—the agony only worsened, shooting through his head like a blinding, splitting force.
"Ahhh... gasp... gasp..." Cassian jerked awake with a scream, his body heaving as if his lungs had just rediscovered air. "Huh! I’m alive..." he murmured, his hand instinctively reaching for his face—a sign he was truly here, truly awake.
Relief? What was he relieved from? He couldn’t remember. Only his chest felt so heavy, like a weight he couldn’t shake. What was that dreadful place? Why did it feel so real?
And why had he woken up in a panic, as though caught in the midst of something horrible again? "Huh! Why? What’s happening to me?" His mind swirled with confusion as his gaze lifted to the unfamiliar ceiling.
Above. Wait, what? How was he no longer in the endless void? How did he get here? Slowly, his senses began to return. He was covered in a soft blanket, and as he looked around, he realized the truth.
This wasn’t an ordinary room. It was a room far from plain—filled with luxuries he hadn’t seen in ages. As the warmth from the crackling fire surrounded him, he thought, "Kidnapped! But... why?