Opening my eyes, I found Shigure and Homeward sitting on either side of my bed still immersed in the spirit. They were glowing with a gentle light. It was cool. So cool. They were glowing. Was I glowing too? I couldn't tell.
Not wanting to disturb them, I moved their hands aside off my head and shoulders. They probably had some things to discuss with the Creator Father.
Lying here, I didn't feel like I had gotten any better, even so, my Creator Father had told me to get out of bed to walk. I was determined to do what He said. He had said it, so it must be possible. I would do it.
Taking a deep breath, I sat up and swung my legs over the edge of the bed, panting with the effort. I hadn't been able to do this before. The more determined I was, the more strength I discovered I had. The strength flowed into my bones and joints and muscles.
Jumping out of bed, I walked and then ran across the room, out into the corridor where I frightened some people. I was in one of the private, single bed sick rooms of our office building, I realised. Running through the corridor, whooping and cheering to find myself well, I jumped out of an open window, hollering with delight. Only then did I remember that this was the fourth floor, but I wasn't worried about that. I had my mental space and ability centre back. I was literally jumping for joy.
I landed on the ground with multiple resounding cracks that I ignored. I assumed that I had cracked the concrete pavement.
"Kim!" I heard Sarden's voice shriek with fright and I turned to find where his voice was coming from just before I landed.
I bounced up and down in the courtyard garden, until I found him standing aghast at one of the garden gates, guarding the door to a secure area. It was good to see him. I had been worried that he might have died during the war when he helped me escape, but he was alive. He was alive and well.
I was alive and well.
I rushed over to talk to him, my words tumbling over themselves in a rush. Grabbing him by the shoulders, I brought him to bounce with me, making him turn an even paler shade of white than he already was.
His eyes were huge. The biggest and widest I had ever seen. He looked incredulous, confused but happy to see me at the same time.
"Kim! Kim, slow down. Stop jumping around! You're making me dizzy. I can't understand a single word you're saying," Sarden tried to catch a hold of me, gasping, but couldn't get a grip on me in my overflowing exuberance. "You're talking too fast."
"KIM NA!" shouted an authoritative female voice. Two heads poked out of the Director's office on level five and I cringed, feeling like I was about to get into trouble. "Get up here. Now."
"Oh! Oh!" I nodded and waved energetically. "Director! Hi! Hi! Coming! I'm coming! Get out of the window!"
"What?" Assistant Ena Leavenworth looked confused, but the Director directly dragged her away out of the window, while I shook Sarden off, took a run up and jumped toward the window.
"Kim! You're awake!" Big Brother's voice shouted with exultation, running out from the building to join Sarden.
"Big Brother!" I waved, twisting around in the air, completely forgetting that I should be focussing on my landing. I was delighted to see him alive and well as well. "I'm alright! I'm going to see the Director first!"
Other City Agents were running out into the garden or sticking their heads out the windows to look at me soaring upwards through the sky.
Not paying attention to where I was meant to land, of course, I crashed. I crashed into the window and both Ena and the Director had to grab a hold of me before I fell from the fifth storey window that I had momentarily forgotten that I was trying to jump into. They forcefully dragged me into the room while I whimpered in pain.
I had bashed my head on the top of the window frame and saw twinkling stars spinning around my head.
Ena and Director Worth were both wincing for me while I sat on the floor holding my head. The Director's door burst open and Shigure skidded in.
"Sorry about that," he apologised to Director Worth, coming over to rub my head and pick me up.
"Shigure, you're glowing too. Kim and you are both glowing," the Director said.
"I'll explain later," Shigure gave her a distracted grin. "First, I have to get Kim back up into her bed before she gives anyone a heart attack or causes any more trouble. She's a bit too excited." He knocked on my head, making me duck and whimper with pain. *"Uki-chan, He only said to get out of bed and walk,"* Shigure said telepathically. "While He's delighted in the confidence you have in Him, He wasn't done with the healing yet. He sent me to take you back to bed to calm you down and let you sleep a little more. Be good. Don't cause any more trouble for the Director."*
"O-ohh," I deflated a little, but then I perked up, remembering that I ought to report to the Director and that I wanted to share with her what had just happened. "I gotta tell the Director about what happened and…" I said in a rush, but Shigure poked my forehead with a finger, sending me back to sleep.
"You are going back to bed," Shigure shook his head at me with an amused smile filled with helplessness. "Sleep well. I'm so sorry, Director…"
His voice faded while I succumbed to sleep. My excitement faded into a deep slumber that made me laugh to myself. I understood I had scared and shocked and surprised a lot of people today, but I hadn't been able to help myself. I was just too happy. Too excited. I couldn't contain it. It had been such a long time since I had last been completely well.
I couldn't promise I wouldn't still be bursting with excitement when I next got up. I was probably still smiling in my sleep.
But when the excitement faded, sharp pains burst and shot up both my legs. Even in my sleep, I could feel it eating at me, making me frown and sweat profusely. When Shigure heard me crying to him through our mental chat group, Shigure rushed over with the doctor and some others to examine me. He wouldn't let me wake up, saying I wouldn't feel so much pain while asleep. I felt his rebuke for overdoing things earlier.
There was a pinch in the skin and I knew a needle had gone in.
*"Uki-chan," he said with some exasperation, *"You haven't walked for almost two years and your bones weren't ready for all the forces you put through them with all that jumping and leaping about. You jumped down four storeys without any preparation, you know. Sarsen Bird said that when you were bouncing around with him, you were jumping to at least the height of the second and third storeys and taking almost all his weight on yourself. Even so, he still broke a leg. You've got bad fractures in almost all your leg bones. How did you not notice them at the time?"*
I scratched my metaphorical head, since I was still physically asleep.
*"No idea,"* I replied through gritted teeth, feeling myself crying from the pain. *"I was just too happy and excited."*
*"Then let this be a lesson to you,"* Shigure told me. *"Not to be too impulsive and let your feelings carry you away. They just gave you some pain killers. Hang in there. The pain will settle down soon."*
*"Yes,"* I agreed. *"I'm going over to the Creator Father to get them fixed."*
*"You do that,"* Shigure agreed.