Awaken

Temple of the Wandering

Islana woke groaning and in pain. Her muscles and body hurt and her throat felt dry. She tried to move but couldn't as if she was stuck to the cold stone floor of the oval room. The light of the day poured in through the tinted glass panels casting kaleidoscopic shapes across her.

She was back. In the room she had entered with Madaya and Silina although she could not see any of the other girls. Whatever she had experienced was still jumbled in her waking mind. Flashes of images flared in her mind eye, but the memory she recalled the most was the giant boar with his bloodstained tusks rushing towards her and crashing into her figure.

There was a deep meaning to that scene that she could not yet fathom.

Slowly and grunting she sat on the stone floor listening to the same faraway chanting coming from the bowels of the Temple.

Time passed, she could not tell how much, but suddenly one of the doors opened and the seven members of the Council entered led by the tall man who had questioned her...