Chapter 63: Waking Up Blind (2)
Cassian groaned softly in his sleep as he slowly regained consciousness.
The familiar voices that traveled across the room awoke him from his deep slumbers, and what felt good was the fact that he was able to take in as many deep breaths as he could into his lungs without feeling his chest grow painfully tight, but the wounds on his abdomen restricted him to some extent.
Exhaling through his parted lips, his eyes fluttered open and he blinked a few times to try and clear his hazy vision, but to no avail. Everything was a blur, and he couldn’t make out any shapes or forms, nor could he see the owner of those familiar voices he kept hearing.
His mind was disoriented and he felt a dull ache around his body, as though he had been beaten in his sleep, and he realized he was lying on something more comfortable than the earthly ground he was in before.
Trying to remember what happened to him in detail, he felt a dull throbbing ache in the back of his head, the pain radiating through his skull and the familiar voices that kept murmuring around him only seemed to intensify the pain, and he squeezed his eyelids shut.
"Urgh! Shut up Orson, you’re going to kill me first before the headache even does the job" Despite not being able to see who the owner of the voice belonged to, he couldn’t mistake Orson’s deep tenor voice for another, and the whole place strangely quieted down after he had intruded on the conversation going on.
Silence reigned for a few uncomfortable minutes making him wonder if they left. Wouldn’t he hear a door open if they did?
"Brother!" Inna’s exclaimed voice rang in his ear, vibrating his eardrums, and he heard hurried footsteps approaching the bed he was currently resting upon.
He opened his eyes and settled it on the figure that had made his bed sink a bit, but no matter how many times he blinked, he just couldn’t see their faces, or anyone’s faces for that matter.
What about Madeline?? How is he still alive??
"Cassian, you really gave everyone a heart attack. I told you not to leave last night and you didn’t listen to me...." He could hear his sister’s worried voice trembling as she scolded him for leaving the house when she told him not to do it, but with his current confusion and blank gaze, he wasn’t ready to listen to his sister’s rant and he immediately silenced her.