FIA
I blinked. Or I thought I did. The concept of eyelids felt theoretical at best.
The space around me resolved slowly. I noticed there were stone walls that were damp and gray. It looked… It looked like a cell.
The more I looked at it, the more I realized it was the kind of cell that had held me before, when I embodied my ancestor Athena in those vivid dreams of mine. Yes… It was. It was the same vile space that had held so many innocents before and after her.
I could almost taste the iron in the air, could almost hear the echoes of screams that had soaked into these walls over decades.
But it wasn't real. I knew that somehow.
I sat up. My body moved without the pain I should have felt after what had just happened.
I had no throbbing skull, no broken nose, no blood coating my face. All I really felt at this point was a strange lightness, like I'd been hollowed out and filled with something kinder entirely.
Then I noticed someone was there.
