Selina awoke with a start at the woman’s command: “Drink.” She inhaled sharply, her eyes fluttering open and gazing unseeingly for a moment or two before reality crashed back down around her. She looked down at the water in the leaves and suddenly lurched forward, lapping at the liquid—the blood of the gods—with reckless abandon.
Too soon, she was asked for her name, and her brain scrambled and swam around inside her head in utter confusion. She did not answer for a time, licking the leaves until there was not a drop of water left on any of them. Feeling somewhat better, but still perilously close to death or unconsciousness, she lifted her head with a wobble and looked at the woman with her grey-blue eyes.
“Selina,” she whispered, the S-sound coming from her maw like a whiplash, while the rest of her name flowed from her tongue like mist in the early morning.
Too soon, she was asked for her name, and her brain scrambled and swam around inside her head in utter confusion. She did not answer for a time, licking the leaves until there was not a drop of water left on any of them. Feeling somewhat better, but still perilously close to death or unconsciousness, she lifted her head with a wobble and looked at the woman with her grey-blue eyes.
“Selina,” she whispered, the S-sound coming from her maw like a whiplash, while the rest of her name flowed from her tongue like mist in the early morning.
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