Tasha's eyes were closed when she heard a voice growl for her attention. It wasn't so much words as a noise with base purpose. Her eyes ease open as mixed emotions zip through her mind.
"Where am I? What happened?" These questions and many others ran like fish in the pool of her thoughts as she was hoisted to her feet. They felt like stones under her and tingled with long hours of disuse as she was forcibly pulled towards two massive wooden doors. Along the edges, which faded out her vision with their height, were golden engravings. The shapes seemed to swim before her eyes, changing and reforming into shapes and words she could not comprehend.
Her mind was blank of answers and that sight just made it worse. As she was pulled closer, the doors seemed to open of their own accord and swung wide with an eerie silence. The deep thumping of her captors footsteps brought
her eyes forwards, only to quickly fall away again; What she'd seen, her mind couldn't, or wouldn't, grasp. She let her eyes roam as they walked and she took in the marbled columns passing by, like quiet onlookers to her captivity.
She shuddered, fear threatening to spill out of her in whatever way it may see fit. The thumping footsteps came to a stop moments later and her thoughts were interrupted by a soft, incredulous voice.
"This-...This is her?" It sounded feminine, high and pleasant as it played across her straining ears. The noise she heard before came again, but in a different tone and the voice rang out again, surprise etched across every word, just as much as it was balanced by command.
"Leave us, and lock the door behind you." The creature which had accompanied her almost ran to leave, it's mangled hand leaving her arm where it had pulled her along behind it. Tasha rubbed the red marks it had left on her skin, her eyes downcast as her mind continued reeling. She didn't hear the footsteps approaching her quickly, but equally soft as the voice that caressed her nerves. Something touched her chin, guiding her head head and irrevocably her eyes, upwards.
"Look at me." The voice said, playing on her strings like she would a violin. "Tasha. Look at me." The sound of her name on the air seemed familiar in the voice that spoke it, but how could that be? Here, in this completely foreign place? Her eyes found their answer as her chin was tilted further; the face was indeed familiar, though it was hard to place at first. As she looked at the stranger, dumbstruck, it all clicked into place.