Selena awoke from the hospital bed with a screaming headache. She touched her temple which stung to her touch. She hissed in pain. She had a bandage around her head which annoyed her.
"Welcome back from the dead. You know you're lucky that your still alive." A nurse greeted her, writing something down on her clipboard. "Can you see straight?"
"I think." Selena mumbled.
"How many fingers am I holding up?" She held out two fingers.
"Two?" Selena guessed. The nurse nodded, writing more on the clipboard. Selena felt tired with all the morphine in her system now she felt like she was stoned. She had to get twenty stitches on her temple and she had broken three ribs on her right side. Erol came in the room, reluctant.
"Hi." He said quietly.
"Hi." Selena smiled back.
"So...how are you feeling?" Erol asked with concern. Selena motioned her body to sit up, but all she felt was a sharp pain in her ribs.
"Ugh...I feel high." She smiled a goofy smile.
"Wonderful." Erol said sarcastically.
"So...what happened?"
"The nest was destroyed, but that metal head got the better of you. I carried you all the way to the hospital. I thought you were dead with that blow to your temple I thought that would have killed you," He explained with wide eyes. "It knocked you into the rocks. You must have flown twenty, maybe thirty feet!"
"Lucky me." She stiffened. "Well you are not getting rid of me that easily."
"Well I hope not." He said.
"So what happens now?"
"We wait until you heal. The...Baron wants to make sure you stay strong for the next time." Erol sighed.
"What?! I was almost killed! Does my life mean nothing? Am I so meaningless that I have to risk my life again?" Selena said awestruck. Erol sighed.
"I know, but with the Baron, don't expect more vacations. He says if you fail then...well I'll tell you later..."
"Okay, I-I..." Selena said drifting off into a deep sleep. All drugged up, nothing could wake her, not even a hurricane.