A scream tore off from Islinda's lips as soon as her eyes snapped open and she was back in her room. However, the traumatizing experience she had been subjected to was just so overwhelming that she assumed it was another trick of the mind and didn't recognize that she was back in her body.
Strongs arms suddenly wrapped around her arms and lifted her off the bed. The move startled Islinda that she let out a high-pitched scream she never thought she was capable of producing. Although it was pretty much exaggerated, the intensity of her scream was capable of raising the dead and made her captor wince out loud.
"Shhh, darling, it's me," Aldric attempted to calm her, but Islinda was too far gone and surprisingly strong. She elbowed Aldric so hard in the ribs that the breath was knocked out of his lungs.
