I hopped off the comfort of the chair I sat on and followed Priss around the wall. I then walked down a small pathway, a few openings on my right and left. Priss turned right and disappeared into one of the openings. I followed in and stopped, trying to make out what everything was. Too bad I couldn't still.
"Over here, Quil," came Priss's voice. My eyes wandered over to the black, floating shape of the Misdreavus who was hovering close to yet another chair, only the color was black. I hopped up on the chair. The feel was cold and much different from metal. It felt like it was being covered by something.
"Just wait here for a few," Priss said as she floated out the opening into the pathway. "I'll be back with my Mistress."
And so I sat, fidgeting nervously. There were big things that I couldn't see. Even if I could, I wouldn't be able to identify them anyway. I heard something soothing within the room. It was calming. I thought back to the time when my mother sang me lullabies just to get me to sleep. It was just as soothing as this new sound.
I felt my body relaxing, getting used to this kind of sound. My eyes shut, exhaustion overwhelming me. I felt myself starting to lose consciousness fast when I heard Priss's voice say, "I'm back." I struggled to open my eyes. The exhaustion was too strong, but nevertheless, I managed to open my eyes.
"You look tired," Priss noticed. What a way to notice the obvious. "You should get some rest after my Mistress helps get your eyesight back." Behind Priss I noticed a human walking in. This human was wearing white all over.
"Is she this Mistress of yours?" I asked, a bit nervous.
"She is," Priss replied. "There's nothing to be worried about. She's quite good at helping people with their eyes. If all goes well, you should have your eyes cleared in no time."
I nodded, understanding her and trying to stay awake.
"O.K.," the human said, her voice giving off that feminine sound. "So from what Priss tells me, you're having trouble seeing. Am I right?"
I nodded my head again.
"Well don't you worry," the human said. "I'll get those eyes of yours cleared in no time." I watched with worry as the human walked over to a table and picked something up.
"No need to be nervous," Priss told me. "All she's going to do is cover up one of your eyes just to see how bad they really are. Then she's going to switch and do the other side."
My heart began pounding even after my Priss had something covering my eye.
"Alright now, Cyndaquil," the human said.
"Quil," I said.
"Come again?" the human asked.
"Quil," I repeated, pointing to myself.
"Quil?" the human said. "Your name is Quil?"
"Quil," I said once more with a nod.
"Alright then," the human said. "Quil, I'm going to show you different letters and I want you to be able to tell me if it's one or the other."
She held up something in her hand. I really couldn't tell what it was.
"Don't worry about getting it right or wrong," Priss said. "Just remember that we're testing your eyes out."
O.K.," I gulped.
"Quil," the human said. "I want you to tell me whether this letter I'm holding is a C or a G. Raise your right paw for G and your left for C."
I hesitated, squinting hard at the letter. It looked like a curve, but it was hard to distinguish. In response, I slowly raised my left paw up. I couldn't tell of the human's reaction, but she turned about and placed the letter down.
"Next letter," the human said. "Raise your right paw if you think this letter is an R or your left paw if it's a P."
Again I squinted, staring hard at the unknown letter. It was too hard to see though, so I raised my right paw. The human turned around and held another letter.
"Right paw for Q or left paw for O," she said, to which I raised my right paw again. After a few more letters given out, the thing covering my right eye covered the other eye. And again the process was repeated.
Once that was done, the human picked something up and began scribbling down something from the looks of it.
"Well Quil," she said. "I'm not going to lie to you. You're eyesight is poor. I mean really poor. If only pokemon could talk, I'd be able to find out all their problems."
"I didn't do anything to ruin my eyes, did I?" I asked Priss nervously as she examined the results herself.
"Let me put it this way," Priss said after a few minutes. "When people go into a building and it gets dark and they stay there for a while until they come out, the sunlight blinds them temporarily. Only in your case, living in a forest for five years and coming out into the sunlight then can put a temporary to almost permanent blindness on your eyes."
"So you're saying that I might be like this forever?" I asked, afraid of the answer to come.
"I'd say about an even chance of it happening or not," came the answer. "There may be a way to get rid of all that blurriness in your eyes. I just hope it works."
"What way would that be?" I asked.
"Well," Priss said. "One way would be to put a special kind of powder in your eyes."
"There's another way?" I asked.
"There is," Priss replied. "But I'd rather not go into detail about that one. Let's just focus upon the first one for now."
The human, who was quiet for some time, finally spoke up. "Hate to break you two up, but there are other customers I have to deal with today. So I can't be wasting time. This way please."
I hopped off the chair and followed Priss and her Mistress back into the small pathway, going from one room to another. The room I was in looked completely the same, at least to me. I hopped in yet another chair and was told to rest my head down upon something while looking into this black screen looking thing.
"O.K., Quil," the human said. "Don't move your eye. Just stare straight ahead." I followed the human's instructions and stared into the screen. A moment went by where nothing happened. Then suddenly, something shot into my eye. I shot back, clutching my eye as I felt myself tipping over.
I felt myself freeze in mid-air as the chair I was on fell to the floor.
"You alright, Quil?" Priss asked me as I floated to the floor gently. I figured that she migt have been something to do with it.
"What was that?" I asked confused, still clutching my eye.
"I told you of some special powder being put in your eye," Priss said. "It helps others relax the first time they're here so that they don't get worked up. Any way, that's what we call tissue powder."
"Tissue powder?" I said.
"It helps readjust the eye so it can see a bit more clearly," Priss explained. "It doesn't work all the time. But hopefully in your case, it should have helped."
I removed my paw from my eye and blinked several times. One thing I immediately noticed was that my eye was different than the other.
"Hey!" I said happily. "I can see. My eye is cleared."
"Thank goodness," Priss said as I turned to her.
"What about my other eye?" I asked.
"Just repeat the process," Priss said. "Your other eye should be cleared in seconds."
So I did as I was told and had the powder shot in my other eye. I recoiled, but wasn't caught off guard this time. I blinked a few times before I had a clear vision in both my eyes.
"Wow!" I said as I looked about the place. "I can see everything very well now. Thanks Priss."
"I didn't do that much," Priss said. "You should thank my Mistress. She was the one helping you out."
"But you helped me out as well when I couldn't see," I said. "So I guess I owe you for that." Priss could only smile as the human girl began walking up.
"I'll see you out at the register," she said as she left the room.
"Actually you owe me two since I'm paying for you," Priss said as she followed her Mistress.
"Three counting the lunch," I said before yawning. Priss stopped before she left and noticed my exhaustion.
"I forgot," she said. "You've had a rough day. Follow me real fast. There's a spare bedroom upstairs." I followed Priss as quickly as I could, only thinking about rest. After a climbing up a flight of steps, I came to a halt behind Priss as she opened up a door, which led into another room. There wasn't quite a lot in the room, but it suited me fine.
"My Mistress and I use this for any special customer," Priss explained. "Feel free to come and go as you please."
"Sleep, now," I growled irritably, my eyes shutting fast. I felt myself being raised into the air and being placed down upon something soft and comfy.
"Hope you have sweet dreams, Quil," I heard Priss say moments before I drifted out.