"Anora."
The sound traveled through a vast, hollow distance, echoing like a voice carried from a forgotten land across the borders of a dream.
It was a fragile, scraping sound that seemed to lack the strength of real breath.
"Anora... please, open your eyes."
I slowly forced my eyelids open, the weight of them feeling like heavy stone. My vision was distorted at first, blurry shapes swimming in a hazy sea of gray and amber before the world snapped into a sharp, painful focus.
The first thing I saw was the rough, packed dirt of the ground directly below my feet.
Then, the cold reality of my situation set in all at once, rushing through my veins like a wave of mountain ice.
I was completely suspended. My arms were pulled high above my head, pinned flat against a jagged stone wall wi
