I felt a sharp pain tear through me. Someone had stabbed me. My warm blood gushing out of me, tears running down my cheeks, blurring my vision.
I never really wanted to die; I just wanted to escape this house of terror. Nobody really knows what goes on inside this house besides us four. I couldn't do it myself, and now someone is doing it for me.
"What did I do to deserve this?" I cried, my voice breaking as I said it.
The newly blooded terrace I was standing on, the wind caressing my body, swaying my night gown. My teary eyes looking at the well-lit moon were my last moments. I no longer felt sad. I felt at peace knowing I would be escaping this place where I was no longer welcome.
I then heard a voice telling me to live, asking me questions. It sounded like my voice? I was telling myself to live and create anew for myself. I didn't truly wanna die, but it felt amazing knowing I wouldn't live in this house anymore. I was escaping, so why is this voice in the back of my head telling me to live, asking me if I wanted another chance to live a better life?
I thought death meant freedom, but this curiosity of living was compelling me. I wanted to live, and that's when I awoke in my bed with tears in my eyes.
"Was that a dream?"
"No, that wasn't a dream, that was real, everything you felt, down to the warm blood staining your skin."
said the voice in the back of my head, echoing. I was freaking out. I didn't understand,
"Did I die or did I not..., and who or what was this voice?"
"Who are you speaking to, My lady?"
"What? Who are you? What is this?"
"What do you mean, My lady, it's me...Ann."
"Where am I? I don't understand anything!"
"My lady, you're in the house of Aurelis. I'll go fetch the palace doctor."
"The palace doctor, we don't live in an empire."
The doors flung open, slamming against the wall with two unfamiliar faces running in."
"Elia! Are you okay? You've been asleep for weeks. The doctor wasn't sure if you'd wake up."
"What...I'm okay, but I'm sorry...who are you?"
She called me Elia? Where am I, and when did my bed get so big?
"My lady!! I've come back with the palace doctor."
"Doctor, please check if she's alright. She just asked who I am."
There's so much commotion, I don't understand. Who are all these people? The palace doctor? This first woman is wearing a ball gown with so much detail, the golden fabric lining, I could trace it with my eyes for days, just because it was incredible.
The second woman was dressed as a house cleaner or a maid, perhaps. She kept calling me "My lady," and this other woman was calling me "Elia?"
"She's calling you' My lady' because you are living anew as I promised you."
"Can you hear me if I speak in my mind?"
"yes I can hear you, Dicentra."