After an unknown time, Jacob's eyelids trembled before they sprang open, and his amber eyes were filled with bewilderment.
When he saw the familiar runic ceiling, clarity started to return in them, and he finally remembered how he fell into slumber.
Shocked replaced his eyes, and he quickly tried to get on his feet. But then he instantly groaned in pain all over his body as if he had exercised like crazy and all his muscles were sore.
"What happened? Was it a dream or illusion?" Jacob thought aloud in his hoarse voice, and he instantly felt thirsty as his mouth felt as dry as a desert.
He then took a water jar and started to drink in a large mouth, and he chunked down the entire five litter of it, and only then he felt somewhat alive.
"Well, I'm still in the mine? Then was that really just an illusion? It was simply too real." When Jacob thought about how real that feeling of getting frozen to death and completely helpless under that pathway was, gloom filled his heart.
