Something broke inside of me. I think it was my mind. When I came to, I didn't really come to. When you come to you're supposed to open your eyes and see the world around you... for real.
And I couldn't.
Something was wrong with me... I couldn't see. There wasn't a black, or a white even, or a frickin' rainbow. There was... nothing. I screamed. It was the most terrifying thing to possibly happen to me. There wasn't a darkness some people talk about. There was... absolutely nothing. At least my ears still worked. I reached down and tried to bury my hands in the earth, but my fingers met cold hard steel. What was this? I swallowed. I sent out a tendril of my mind to see what the world outside of me held, and flinched back when I felt broken minds.
I choked in terror, and reached out to grasp the iron bars of my cage.
"What is this?" I whispered out loud.
"Alix?" a voice asked. Familiar... but I still couldn't place it. And what was the word it spoke?
"Who's there?" I lashed out with angry words.
"Alix, it's me, Iggy," the voice responded. I frowned.
"I don't know an Iggy. Who is Alix?" I called out.
"Alix... you are Alix. Are you OK?" the voice- I identified it as male- called again.
"Like hell I'm OK!" I snapped. "What is this? Where am I? Why can't I see?"
"Iggy, what's wrong with her?" a feminine voice asked.
"I don't know, Aqua," he responded, scared.
"Who are you people?" I made a strangled noise. I identified them as the reason I was in the cage. "What do you want from me?"
"Alix," a different boy's voice said groggily. "We're in here like you. What's wrong with her?"
"That's what we are trying to find out, Dylan," the first boy said.
"Let me be," I whispered, horrified at the number of people around my cage.
"Alix, it's OK, we're your brother's friends," the second boy said. I noted how his voice wobbled, and how it cracked when he said 'friends'.
"I don't have a brother," I said, desperately searching my memories. Terror gripped me tighter when I found I remembered... nothing. It was as blank as my vision. "At least... I don't think I do."
"Alix?" yet a third boy's voice reached me. "Alix, of course you have a brother." His voice was deep and I could tell it was normally voice of emotion, but I thought I could hear a faint note of... something. Almost like... lost hope.
"Fang, she doesn't remember us, I think there's something wrong with her," the girl's voice said.
"Oh no," the second boy said. "I remember when I picked her up, she had hit her head in the fall. Maybe... a concussion? Maybe... amnesia. That must be it."
"What have you done with me?" My voice was shrill. "What did you do to my eyes, you bastards! Let me go at once you have no business doing anything of this sort..." I trailed off, wondering if they were even the cause of what was happening to me.
"Alix, we are in cages like you, calm down," the second boy said. For some reason, I felt like... believing him. "What's wrong with your eyes, hon?" Even without my sight, I could see that boy number 3 was shooting daggers at boy #2.
"I can't see... ANYTHING," I choked out.
"It should pass," a new voice said. I jumped back- he sounded closer. Right outside my cage. "We'll do some experiments to.. ah, help you." The cage door opened, and I felt several large hands rap themselves around my biceps and pull me from the cage. I kicked and yelled as double doors made squeaking sounds and the floor changed- I was dragged from the room. I heard a chorus of voices screaming ALIX! as I was dragged away.
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