Stone Circle i love you, and if you want, I'll call you king

Set for today, April 16th! So, 5 days after Aquillius arrived in Kvarshiem by backdating from his last thread

He opened his eye.

The colors swam and bled into a sludge like chalk drawings during a rain, collecting on the corners of his vision. His heart thundered against his ribs, which reminded him with every breath that they didn’t wish to move.

He breathed. But it hurt.

Aquillius was used to pain.

He tried to move, drawing one of his legs beneath him, but the shock of pain that followed left him breathless. It radiated from all over, overtired muscles, his raging stomach, his wrapped ankle, his head throbbing gently in comparison. He could smell, he thought, the comings and goings of several wolves.

He was covered in a fur. He blinked, hard, the world swimming back into focus with every blink.

…what…? He rasped out through a throat that felt as thin and narrow as a straw.