Desolate Visions.

You feel your consciousness coming back to you as you exhale out with long slow breaths. Your eyes finally start to part open and you notice the room you're in is actually quite bright. The wooden beams up by the ceiling are looking very out of place from the Rathkin Castle you were just at. You also noticed there wasn't any velvet drapes hanging around or expensive paintings on the walls.

Putting your hands to your side you push your body up, resting yourself on your elbows as your head looks around the room. It's not just a room though because as you scan the area you notice that you're in a tiny little house laying down on a small cot on the side. It looks very homely as everything is made of wood and most of the fixtures around the area look to be not very expensive. You see a table with four chairs around it setting on a somewhat flimsy piece of cloth padding under them as well as some copper cups and utensils around the table. To the right there are a couple windows which look outside into the mid day sun. You think that maybe you are in the outer city of Rathkin or maybe even some smaller Rathkin village because they wouldn't move you too far you thought.

"Ughhh..." you groan out as you bring you right hand up, cupping your left pectoral muscle where you remember a steel arrow was sticking out of you. You look down and see your the muscles of your abs bulging proudly as you notice you're shirtless but also wearing leather pants. A slim piece of white cloth cut in a square is carefully placed over the same spot where you got hit by that piercing arrow.

With your fingers you rub the piece of cloth gently and let out another moan as your upper chest still feels extremely sore. "What the hell..." you clench your eyes shut and take a few more breaths before swinging your legs to the side, bringing them off the bed and placing your feet on the hard wood floor.

Pushing yourself up to your feet you stumble slightly as you try to regain your composure. "Whoaa..." you groan out as you finally regain your composure. You didn't know how long you were out and with the way your body felt you figured it would have been at least a day or two. "Hello?" you call out, seeing if anybody else is home. "Anybody there?" your voice cracks as your right hand once more comes up to your chest and rubs it softly.

As you turn and walk over to the table you notice a giant bucket filled with water. Your tongue parts out trailing along your parched lips as you immediately reach down with both your hands and form a cup with your hands. Shoveling handful after handful of this water into your mouth. The water flows through your body feeling exquisite as it coats the insides of your mouth, throat and stomach.

"Mmmm..." you moan in pleasure as this very same water you are sucking down feels almost unbearably frigid.

After gorging yourself with water, you splash a few handfuls into your face and then move over towards one of the windows in the house. Step by step you get closer until you're right next to it, looking out into the mid day sun.

"What the..." you continue to ponder the situation. "W-Where am I..." your eyes patrol the visions outside. You notice many smaller wood built houses as well as some wooden fences along the perimeter of the village. It looks as if there are many dirt fields sectioned off which would be perfect for farm lands. "Am, I... What the..." you continue mumbling your thoughts out to yourself "Where is everybody?"

With a shake of your head you turn towards the front door of the house, pushing it open and stepping outside onto the dirt.

"Wait a minute..." you step out further away from the house as your body starts to turn in a circle. Your vision looking all around the village, soaking in all the images "This looks so similar..." you gulp down, still extremely confused "I-It can't be..." you seem almost stunned as you look at your surroundings. "This doesn't make any sense..." you mumble out once more as you take off in a light jog down the dirt road through the village looking for somebody to question.

Your mind is starting to panic as you need to find somebody and ask them where you are at. You had to figure out what village you were at and what the quickest way back to the Syndicate was. It didn't help at all because you were curious where Lexie, Ashe or Karisi was and with a giant groan "Oh god...What the hell happened?!" you continued your jog as your body pulsed in pain "Is this town completely deserted?!" you groan louder as your jog gets a little faster and faster around the village, pushing yourself through the discomfort.

It isn't until you turn one final corner around a house and you look off into a field. Your eyes immediately lock on a person that is kneeling down in the field, either harvesting or planting something in the soil. "Hey!" you exclaim out as you make your way over to the figure.

The person doesn't even notice you as they continue to stay kneeling down messing around in the dirt right in front of them. They are completely covered in a cloth tunic that also covers their head so you have no clue who this person is but you don't really care as it's the first person you've seen in this entire village since you woke up. You come to a stop right behind them as you look down over this unknown human "Excuse me, where am I? What village is this?" you question the person immediately between breaths.

You can see from behind they stopped moving, stalling for time a few moments causing you to begin to lose patience. The figure then places their hands on the ground and pushes up, bringing their body up to their feet but failing to turn around to show you who it is.

"Excuse me?" you politely say once more, placing a hand on their shoulder "Where am I?"

The figure still doesn't move and their back is still towards you.

"P-Please, I just need to know what happened? Can you tell me?" you ask again as your hand on their shoulder pulls them towards you. Their body begins to turn and soon you will be face to face with this lone villager and hopefully get some answers to where you are.