Chapter 111: Strange forest...
Kurtis POV
Slowly, I came to consciousness as my eyelids fluttered open, squinting against the harsh blinding light that seemed to be coming from the ceiling. Where was I? Did Conrad finally get me? Have I left the forest I was in seconds ago? I wondered in my heart.
My vision swam as my eyes searched the room, trying to remember where I was... who I am? After a few seconds, I blinked rapidly, willing my eyes to adjust to the whiteness of the wall and the peach contrast facing me. Finally, everything came into focus and I found myself staring right into a woman’s face looming over mine with concern.
Who was she? I wondered as I stared at her, noting how beautiful she was and how adorable she looked right now with the frown in between her brows. Then like lightning, it struck me. The woman above me was Selene and... I turned to my left, and as expected, Xavier was kneeling beside me too giving me a concerned stare. There were a ton of people in the room and they were all look at me.
What had happened? Why do I have a lot of people in here? This was my office no doubt. So why were they here? Did something happen? I willed my brain to try to remember as I closed my eyes again.
"Is he going to pass out on us again?" Xavier murmured and shook my hand "Hey Kurtis, if you can hear us, you better open your eyes and tell us how you feel so that the doctor can help you recover faster plus I hate to sound like a taskmaster butlly need you now. Your men won’t take instructions from anymore and as we speak, the Kings..." he trailed off as his eyes shifted to the other people in the room.
Yes! The king! I remember that. I was going to come into my office for a bottle of water because I had an overwhelming, maddening thirst and had been so desperate to find some water to quench it. I had come into my office and headed to the table that had the jar of water from the mountains that I only drink and then... nothing!
"Kurtis!" Selene’s voice reached me again, much warmer than Xavier’s "Are you alright? Please say something, you’re scaring us?"
Wait! Another memory flitted into my mind. I was in a strange forest filled with one kind of plant it seemed and I was running wildly as if I was looking for something or someone was after me. Then, I stopped at a big tree with branches high up to the sky. Somehow, as I stood there wondering at the tree, I found myself at the branch and then when I looked down at its base, I saw Conrad beckoning to me with a warm smile on his face.