Chapter 43: Crescent Pack! Again!

ARIA'S POV:

Blinking, I could hear voices and laughter. It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the light, as well as for my mind to register that I was no longer in the Zilam pack.

I was in the Crescent Pack! Again!

Looking around, I realized that I was on the floor of the dungeon. I tried to rise, but I could not. My entire body was full of aches. It felt like I had fallen from the fifteenth floor of a building, and then been hit and beaten to pulp.

With every move I made, pain was the outcome. Moving my leg was like moving a very heavy sack of bricks that weighed a ton.

My head itself felt too heavy to carry. Trying to rise the first time, I fell. The second time, I could only manage to get up on one leg, and then, with a thump, I fell back down.

After many attempts, I just decided to lay back on the floor until I was sure that I could rise without much issue.

Footsteps were approaching the cell I stayed in. Outside the cell bars, a pair of feet stopped in front of me.

"We meet a