"How am I feeling?... uhm, am okay I guess."
My voice was still hoarse and raspy making me sounds like a Middle Ages man despite my small physic that matched the age of this body.
My usual voice was more like a pubescent male who had just started to develope his adult like feature, but now it was like I was experiencing mid life crisis.
I raised my left hand to my face, both my eyes were where they were supposed to be. It was like I had never lost an eye to begin with.
"Hmmm he actually understands us that's quite interesting?" A small white cloud bobbed into view.
I slowly removed my hand from my face as the reality sets in that I was just speaking to literal clouds.
"Ha ha... that it, am dreaming, I've gone insane from all the pain I've had to bare haven't I?..." I resolved the issue before me by making such assumptions. There was no way anyone could be sane when face with a scenario like this."
I adverted my attention towards my left but there was no thing there, I though I had seen two of these clouds, I then felt a finger press unto my back and began to draw on my back as if it was a a canvas.
The finger sent a jolt trough my body and I convulsed on reflex before I felt all my limbs go numb.
"What that-" my speech was cut short as my lips grew heavy and I lost mobility in my body body and fell back onto the sack below me.
"Am sorry about that, you see we are a race that remains hidden from the eyes of the known for we are apart of what's called the forgotten." A grey cloud hovered into my sights once more as it allowed itself to stop within view.
It was like a ball of cotton that was about the size of an adult humans head, it had a mixture of grey and white with a deeper black blemishes reminiscent of spots or stripes of an animal.
It was quite weird to have a cloud speak to me but upon remembering I was in a world of magic my mind made some attempts to keep up my current situation.
Despite being confused i was also smitten with fear one I suppressed despite being manipulated by some sort of skill to remain motionless.
"Is- this a paralysis skill?" I spoke slowly trying to see if I was able to speak despite being paralyzed but my theory was right if I was still able to breath properly talking shouldn't be an issue.
"Yes and no, you are indeed paralyzed but I didn't put the paralysis skill on you for we the forgotten don't receive skills as we the forgotten aren't actually seen as worthy of them by gods of the main pantheon." The cloud came a little closer to my face which made it seem even bigger.
"I applied a rune, a rune of stagnantion which limits the movement of the limbs." The tone at which the cloud spoke changed to be more scary or threatening.
It made me gulp as I again realized I am currently at the mercy of these creatures,things (?)
"Fear not am not here to kill you young human, I saw you charging into our forest battered and dying while running on fumes and while normally I'd let you die i had sense the will to live and a strange level of grief and depression, so I decided I would help you."
I was now bewildered by her speach I don't recall running into a forest the last thing I remember is Rochelle going unconscious from her injuries and me calling for help while wanting to save Ellen and Sheena.
I then felt a sharp pain in my head as my mind made an attempt to remember, I saw Sheena struggling in the arms of that eternal and Ellen following them through their portal despite being wounded and weaponless I then remembered some clergy casting life support magic on Rochelle and carrying her to the church.
I struggled to turn my head as I remembered something and the weapons leaning by the door of the hut came into view, so I do have their weapon I thought what happened earlier was a dream so I did get up in this hut before.
"Looking for you're weapons to attack us eh?"
The cloud once again spoke as it became electrically charged.
"N-no! No! I just don't recall running into a first and seeing as I have alll those weapon I guess it makes sense, I did make an attempt to save them in a fit of rage!"
My eyes widen from shock and my lips operated on their own it I was making an attemp to save my skin because I was still at their mercy.
"Fu fu fu! Am only messing with you lad, I know my runes are the strongest and there's no way someone of your caliber can break free with your own wits." The voice now had a proud tone they were now bragging.
"You must be starving you've been unconscious for five days, I heard you're kind feed on the blood of the forgotten ones, hmm kid come give this lad some blood!"
"Grandma!" - " What!? No I don't drink blood!"
The smaller cloud and my voice over lapped each other as we shouted to refute the words of the grey cloud.