PART 1
A shuffling of feet. A hand shaking her shoulder, "THIS ONE IS STILL ALIVE!" someone shouted, "TAKE HER TO THE CLEAN AREA!" another yelled. Suddenly she was lifted up and carried to a place she doesn't recognize.
Suddenly, Eirika awoke with a start. As she awoke she thrust her upper body forward and almost bumped her head on the bunk above her, the gnome sized beds were big even for Eirika. But, of course she had never been a very big gnome to begin with. Her hair was green and always put up in little buns on the back of her head. Her skin was pale from the time she had spent recuperating. "The nightmare again" she thought to herself, "but what does it mean?"
It had been ten hard months since she had awoken in Anvilmar, the city of the dwarfs, when she had awoken she couldn't speak, she could barely eat, and she had no idea of who she was. All she knew was that she had a locket that had her name engraved on it. She didn't know why or how she came to possess such a treasure, but it was hers, it was the only certainty she had that said she had someone who cared about her somewhere in this big world. It was the only driving force behind her for those past ten months. She knew that if she got stronger she would be able to find that someone in the world who cared for her. Eirika had tried to open the locket on many occasions, but it was made of mythril and Eirika didn't want to reveal that she had such a treasure to any one.
She had kept the locket a secret, for although she had no idea how valuable it was, she knew that someone might try to steal it from her. Since she had very little energy, she knew she wouldn't be able to defend herself if push came to shove.
So she lay back asleep and drifted off again to that place between waking and sleeping.
To be continued…