Chapter 1: Blind

Corrin felt cold.

She didn't feel much of anything, but she definitely felt cold. She couldn't move an inch, even to blink. She couldn't taste, smell, hear, or see. She was also completely naked, her already-little seducive clothing having disappeared from her body.

Corrin remembered what had led to her fate. She remembered everything in her life, from Mikoto and Arete escaping with her and Azura from the Valla in her world, to Sumeragi being slain and the once-murky parts of her past following his death, to her struggle with both her families against Anankos, to even her and everyone's murders at Avina's hands. She remembered being brought back to life by Avina and being forced to serve her forces alongside her son and daughter, then being forced to mate with them and produce a daughter and grandson with them to be tested on like rab lats.

Corrin's mind froze then. Her sweet little son, daughters, and grandson. They didn't deserve to suffer like they did. She wondered where they were and how they were doing, if they were even still alive. She hoped her second daughter and grandson were in much more better hands than what she could have provided them.

Eventually, after constant failures by herself, her son, and her eldest daughter in their missions, to which Corrin wondered why they were still even kept around if they screwed up so badly and were worthless, the observatory was invaded by their enemies. Corrin vaguely remembered going up against who she remembered to be a green haired little girl wearing what appeared to be a candle hat and pink and green clothing, a pink haired girl around the same age in pink winter clothing, a violet haired girl in green clothing with some sort of light blue bow, and a male with long blonde hair, wearing some sort of strange red armor and helmet, and wielding a sword made out of a strange green energy. All four had defeated her when she attempted to ambush them when they were separated from their friends, and upon collapsing, she felt a numbing pain creep through her broken failed husk as she felt it start to deteriorate and fade away. Her vision then had started to blur and darken, but just as she perished for the final time, she could have sworn she heard Kana and Selkie going livid and crying for her just before she blacked out.

"Kana... Selkie... Aliviyah... Mazen... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Corrin (F) thought.

For Corrin, time seemed to be nonexistent. All the silver haired woman felt in the void was a horrible deep chill. She couldn't move or even blink. She couldn't even breathe, as access to her lungs was cut off. Instead, her lungs were being artificially supplied with oxygen so they didn't pump on their own. She was aware of nothing except vaguely where she was. The torture was like an eternal dreamscape, with the fallen heroine in a catatonic state between consciousness and unconsciousness, broken only by hallucinatory "dreams" that allowed her tortured mind to rest.

"Please... just let me die in peace." Corrin's mind begged sadly as she felt her mind shutting off.

Her mind shut down once more into "sleep", giving way to another hallucinatory dream. This time, it was of Kaden back when they were alive. She was naked with him in a private clearing in a forest, with her laying on top as the two lovers made love to each other's content over and over again.

And then her mind "awoke", her body as immobile as before.

She thought about her children and grandson, wondering if, somewhere out there, they were going through the same exact experiences as her.

"Is this what it's like for you, Selkie... Kana? Forever dreaming, never waking?" Corrin wondered.

She could only think, with her mind being driven insane. Apart from her thoughts, she was left to an eternal dreamscape of nightmares. with the constant sleep cycles. Her sense of time had completely eroded away, She wished she could do something, anything, other than just think. It was torture in the purest form.

"Please... just let... my mind rest." Corrin thought tiredly.

Much, much later, Corrin felt her senses return to her as she felt a warmth start at her face and spread along her body. She then gradually started feeling herself laying on what felt like grass, and she flexed her fingers and curled her toes as she felt the soft earth below her. She then felt her body slowly meet air and gradually come to experience a warm climate after so long. She reached up to run her hands along her body, and she found she had body warmth and had none of her malformities from her time as an undead puppet. She then grasped her left breast and found that, although pretty weak, she had a heartbeat. She gasped and started lightly crying in happiness.

"I-I'm alive I'm alive!" Corrin whispered happily.

She then tried opening her eyes, but when she blinked, she gasped as she realized she couldn't see and was now blind. When her eyes were open, all she saw was a blurry vision.

"N-No. I can't see! Why can't I just be left alone?" Corrin whined.

Wrapping her arms around her bare torso and beat red from being fully exposed in public, the silver haired woman started stumbling through the forest that she had appeared in. It was nighttime, so it was even harder for the now-blind ex-Princess to manuever her way around. She stumbled down a dirt path as she tried to find her way out of the forest. As she did, she winced as her feet started crushing what felt like bones underneath her on the dirt.

"Gods, what... what is this? What am I stepping in?" Corrin asked in disgust and fear.

She stumbled as fast as she could away from the path and managed to wrap her arms around an old tree with bare branches. After a few moments, she started backing away from the tree, but then heard a loud metal clanging before pain erupted in her right leg. Corrin howled in pain as she fell to the grass on her back. She weakly reached up to her leg to feel it caught in a bear trap. Tears started running down her cheeks as the pain intensified, with blood pooling down her mangled leg.

"Augh! Ow! What is this? Gods, the pain is so bad!" Corrin hissed.

The woman suddenly tensed as she heard something moving closer towards her location further down the path. Eventually, shadowy figures emerged from the treeline and moved in front of her. She couldn't see them, due to them being blurs to her, but she was terrified of them. She was terrified of what they'd do to her in her state. The figures acted in uniform fashion. Two of the figures moved behind her and began tying her arms and legs together.

"H-Hey! What are you..." Corrin started to ask both fearfully and angrily.

She was silenced when a cloth was wrapped around her mouth and a blindfold was placed over her blinded eyes. Corrin gave muffled cries as her leg was released from the bear trap, and she was forced to her feet, to which she had to be helped up due to her right leg having gotten mangled from the trap. She was then picked off the ground and hoisted over the shoulders of one of the figures and hauled away down the path.