CHAPTER 48

Amelia gradually returns to awareness with the support of Elijah - it is as if the consciousness was gradually getting back to the body as the tide to the shore.

Pain was the first which she became aware of; it was a deep, pulsing pain, as though it was stretching from head to toe.

Then the feelings began to hit her: The sound could be heard to be that of a beeping which she came to conclusion to be medical devices, the feel of the bedsheets, she was on, and a hospital-like fragrance.

It was difficult for Amelia to pry her eyes open and she had to rub them against the faint light in the room.

She gently blinked her eyes and saw herself standing in a modest room with She did not have much furnishings in it.

By the sides of the bed, some live monitors looked like security guards formed of light in the dark. Amelia felt something and acknowledged the stiffness at the back of her neck and she leaned a tiny bit to the side.

Elijah sat, reclining back in a chair at her beds