Annalise blinked her eyes furiously as she tried to adjust them to her surroundings through the haze of brightness that almost blinded her when she first returned to consciousness after what seemed like a really long sleep.
She was expecting her body to be in pain, her temples to be aching, and her powers to be silently buried somewhere deep inside her but that was far from the reality. Her body was warm, she had no headaches, and her powers felt just as active as usual. It was almost like everything she experienced was just a mere dream and nothing more than that, but she knew better than to believe that what she went through was just a result of her imagination that was running wild during her sleep.
The pain was too real, and so was her discomfort and the feeling of numbness. Even the dark energy latching on her without any mercy... all of it was too real to be ignored as a dream, she knew at least that much.
