I can feel my eyes reopen but just slightly as they felt heavy and hard to open all the way.
But before I could fully move I started hearing...
....Voices?
"you sure it just didn't fall over."
"From how it's lying, I think it was trying to stand up."
"So do we put it back up there?"
"I feel like we should tell his highness, what if it did wake up, And besides what if it bites."
"You get bit by a hellhound one time and think everything is gonna bite you."
"Hey man, you didn't get your finger bitten off so of course you wouldn't understand"
"Look I'm just gonna put it back and you can clean up the broken glass on the floor"
"(Sigh) fine but don't come crying to me when your hand gets bitten off."
"Yeah whatever"
I can feel my body being carried up and being put back down onto the podium, waiting for my chance to move.
"Maybe we should tell the gatekeeper"
"What for?"
"What if it did move, shouldn't we tell him instead of his highness"
"I still think it just fell so it's probably just a false alarm"
"...yeah perhaps you're right"
"(Stretches) But all that lifting made me hungry, wanna get lunch."
"We should go to the Gluttony Ring i heard they have a new steak house."
Once I heard the door close and their footsteps disappear I sat up once more gaining strength.
I tried standing up one more time trying to balance my body and legs.
I slowly put one foot in front of the other making sure I don't break anything else in the process.
"I'm walking," I say in excitement almost falling over again.
Stumbling across that pen again which was black and white with a gold tip.
I grabbed it, staring at it in awe but also wondering how I knew what it was like I'd seen it somewhere before but I can't remember where.
Every time I look at it I just see someone else's hand holding and writing with it like I was the piece of paper that was getting written on.
A blank piece of paper is what I am, with only a few words written on it but not enough to understand it.
"I n-need to get out of this room," I say still discovering my voice.
I look around trying to find the door that those two voices walked out of.
I go close to a wall and touch it with a single touch.
Then the wall opens up.
"Ah," I say as I fall back in confusion.
I cautiously glance out the weird door wall looking around not seeing a single soul.
I gathered my thoughts and stood up one more time with the pen in my hand gripping it tightly and looking back into that room one last time before finally walking out.