She opened her eyes and she suddenly realized she couldn't focus anything. The surrounding air was dense, heavy, and with each labored breath, she felt a twinge of pain that started from the chest and reached up to the back.
A dragon should never be afraid. That's the sentence she had been saying over and over in her head. But she didn't feel like a dragon at that moment: she had no idea where she was, with every breath she felt excruciating pain and nothing around her could take shape at her eyes. She was terrified.
She was motionless and, even if she wanted to scream and get up, she didn't try cause she could feel her body was unable. All of a sudden she felt a hand on her forehead. She immediately turned her head to the side and she realized even faster that this small movement had been a terrible mistake. The pain she felt was so excruciating that she couldn't breathe for a few seconds.
"Slowly, my child. Don't worry, I have no intention of hurting you. "
That voice was sweet, delicate and just gentle as the hand stroking her hair. Dany thought no one ever spoke to her the way this woman did.
"Now that the worst is behind you, you have to keep resting."
Dany didn't see anything, so the only thing she could do was keep listening to that reassuring voice. She started breathing again: short and fast breaths first, cause she was afraid that extreme pain would've returned. Then the breaths became slower, deeper, taking the rhythm of the hand which kept stroking her hair.
"You are alive, you are here with us, in our small house. We don't know each other, but this doesn't matter. You don't have to worry about anything. You just have to take time to heal and rest. "
Dany couldn't understand nor remember. She didn't know if she was in the middle of a dream or if she was dead. She didn't know who that woman was. But none of it mattered. At that moment that gentle and delicate voice was enough for her not to sink, it was the only thing to hold on to in order not to fall into the abyss.
"I'm here, I'm not leaving you. You're home."