The clanging of the chains, the sound of grunts, and perhaps the strong smell of something Rhys could not really explain. Those were the sounds that pierced Rhys's ears as soon as he was woken up by his own gasp — he was confused, utterly so.
The last thing he remembered was falling down toward the orange ocean while trying to rein the colossal eagle. He also remembered failing, and then leaping off of the eagle before it dropped to the water.
He also remembered watching the colossal eagle be swallowed by an even more colossal sea creature that was probably almost the size of a small mountain, and then being dragged into the water due to the sheer force of it…
…and he doesn't remember anything after that.
And now, he found himself being dragged by the neck with chains, extremely weak and exhausted, and could not even focus on his surroundings. And his billion-dollar mechanical leg was missing.
