I opened my eyes to an unfamiliar sight,no it seemed similar to a familiar sight it just felt very different; much more unknown. My body felt like a puppet, I couldn't move. So I just scouted my surroundings with my eyes. The ceiling was a light oak colour, similar to the ceiling of my room back in Tanbarun. But this wasn't Tanbarun, it felt different. It smelled different.

"smells like flowers..." Only when i muttered those words I was able to feel my body again. This didn't mean I could move again but at least I could feel my body again. Let's just say that that wasn't necessarily a good thing.

"it stings.." My knee was burning up. The oak coloured ceiling the smell of flowers and sunlight and the faint control of my body made me extremely confused. I felt my eyes rolling back and my eyelids closing and tried hard to fight against the sudden exhausting that took over my body.

I felt that the only way to properly fight back was taking control of my body again. I tilted my head to the left. I started shaking really bad and my view became blurry but even though this tiny action gave me so much pain the tears rolling over my cheecks surprisingly gave me some courage. I flexed my face as much as i could, forcing it into different directions just so my eyes wouldn't close. My sight stabilised and I could see a large window that gave sunlight acces to the room i was laying in.

All of a sudden i knew i was laying in a soft and fluffy bed, I knew my knee was carefully bandaged and all the other wounds I received from being swayed around by a river were also treated. I knew I no longer smelled like blood and dirt, I knew my hair was beautifully braided and I knew someone had cared enough about a stranger to do these things for me. When my eyes became used to the brightness of the sun I saw a blue sky filled with flower petals,caught prisoner by the wind and I felt so awfully safe that I smiled.

I stopped fighting and let my eyes close slowly.

"are you awake?hey? are you alright?"

My body automatically jumped up straight when I awoke. Before my body reached a completely upright position two soft hands grasped onto my shoulders and tried calming me down, as i was extremely startled and confused. I wasn't in my right mind and because I wasn't immediately able to see who the hands belonged to I tried pushing them away from me using my own. I instantly knew I had to calm down as the weak and faint resistance I showed towards the hands left my arms stinging like crazy.

I curled my head into my neck and shut my eyes tight covering my face with my cramped up hands. I couldn't move them yet so they stayed in a confused position, shivering as I tried taking control of my fingers once more. When the hands released my shoulders I sank back into the fluffy bed since the half upright position I was laying in hurt my back a lot.

I desperately tried shriveling up into a ball but was only able to lift my legs into a small angle.

"are you alright...?" as I had thought the hands that had tried to calm me down were accompanied by a soft voice. When I felt a hand patting my ribs from under the covers I felt my fingers curl up and pulling the blanket that was covering me up till my nose.

I opened my eyes and though the sunlight wasn't as strong as I had seen before I could clearly see a kind looking woman looking down at me.

She had mid length blonde hair, tied back into a low pony tail. Because of the evening sun her eyes seemed dark blue but inside the deepest part I felt like they were more indigo than blue. I sighed, something that seemed to amuse her.

"w..what..?" I asked with a hoarse voice. She smiled again and stroked my hair. "Are you alright now?" I felt like I had known this girl forever and without hesitation I nodded. "yeah..."

"You really gave us a scare you know...we suddenly found a girl on the riverside." she scanned the bed from head to toe with her eyes,straightening every small crease in the bedding and tucking in the blanket wherever she could.

"us?" I asked her. She smiled. "you should propably sleep, you obviously have not recovered completely. my companions went to the village downstream to get you some medicine. they left some time this morning so they should be back by sunrise."

"what? If the nearest village is that far why would you go there just for me? I can perfectly heal without medicine." her face became more serious.

"I'm sure you can, but that'll take time won't it?...look, I'm not gonna ask for specifics but... you propably don't have that time,do you?" she looked to the lower part of the bed and I put my legs flat on the bed once more turning my injured knee away from her. I shifted my eyes away from her face, afraid she would think that I actually wouldn't mind telling her 'the specifics'.

she smiled but from the corners of my eyes I could sense a feeling from her eyes. One that scared me a little. it scared me because it felt very familiar and the familiarity I felt from her eyes made me so at ease that I might become comfortable and trusty enough to tell her everything.

The fact that she gave me that feeling scared me a lot.

I nodded and just closed my eyes hoping she would leave thinking I was tired. Surprisingly the second I closed my eyes I felt the same exhaustion taking control of my body again. And I passed out before I could even hear a single movement from her side.

That night I didn't dream. More like dreaming it was like I was just thinking, thinking about the woman sitting beside my bed and how familiar she felt.

The entire night, I spent thinking. At some point it hit me. The feeling I got from her eyes, the way her presence makes you wanna pour your heart out. I felt like this, about someone I had never even met. Only because she reminded me of the thing I was propably missing the most at that very moment.

"I miss Reina..." even though I was sleeping I knew I had muttered those words but what was more surprising was that even though i was sleeping I could feel a tear gliding past my ear. It gave me a chill and reminded me about how weird this entire thing had been.

I knew at that moment that this time was very different from all the previous times I'd been abducted. Aside from the fact that i had decided I would stop being the princess of the story. The fact that I had decided that I would have to get home safe all on my own had really woken me up to reality.

The reality that it wasn't going to be easy, that I might never see the people I love anymore. Before this time I always waited, and people saved me. From the moment that I had decided to save myself my body became very aware of the fact how much effort my 'saviours' put into rescuing me. And at this moment I was going to have to deliver all of that effort on my own...

Maybe my body, my soul... maybe I already knew that I might not be able to save myself. And that's why even though that woman may not have been so familiar, the fact that she reminded me enough of Reina made my heart break.

The fact that there's a possibility I may not be brave enough to save myself and that that fact will make me unable to ever see my loved ones again made my heart break.

It made my heart break.

I thought of that woman again, that's right she wasn't like Reina at all. But in the few minutes I was awake I had the most calming conversation I had ever had... with her. After I completed my speculation on why she felt familiar I started debating with myself on how weird she must have been.

Me being injured and obviously not in my right mind, didn't ask the right questions: "where am I? who are you? what happened to me?..." and instead curled up like a hedgehog using my paralised hands to protect myself like spikes.

But she, being my saviour didn't mind me NOT asking those 'right' questions. Instead she looked me in the eyes, patted my head and with one look knew something in my life had threatened me into becoming someone who hasn't got time to 'stay'. Someone ho hasn't got time... With one look it seemed like she had found out everything about me.

That night I really didn't sleep, not for one bit...

And yet I woke up fresh, and weirdly comfortable.