Chapter 4: AwakeningShivering and clammy, the Carnas awoke in the darkness. It couldn’t move. It was curled into a tight, damp ball, covered in a sheen of freezing damp.
Its eyes were closed. It opened them. It was in a place of total darkness. It shut them again.
Its body was reassuringly cold, wings folded tight against its back. It was wedged in a corner or hole somewhere. It could feel the walls pressing against it. When it was threatened its instinct was to hide.
Its body hurt. There had been fire. It had been trying to return to its home in the Outlands. It was lost.
It was a young female. She had ridden the waves of energy in the way of her kind when she had felt a strong Source pass by. And she had been jettisoned into this wet, energy-less place where she couldn’t sustain hers
