When her consciousness returned the first thing she felt was the familiar feeling of a body.
This feeling was more confining instead of the freedom she experienced in the darkness.
The next thing she registered was the pain. Mind numbing pain washed in shockwaves over her concentrating
mostly above her belly button.
It can not be that she was alive right ? She was shot in the belly... Nobody survives that.
But then slowly she noticed other things. Like the weakness of her body. Her body was never weak.
She worked hard for that. Even if she was beaten to a pulp she trained her body so that she would still
have the strength to at least defend herself.
Right now her body felt heavy. And of course painful but she could ignore the pain.
She always did.
Slowly her senses returned. She felt the cold surface under her cheek and by flexing her body slightly
she concluded that she lay on a floor. It felt like her eyelids weighed a ton but she still forced them to open,
closing them immediately. She again opened them slowly letting her eyes get used to the sudden light.
Involuntary she let out a groan. When she flexed her body it felt like someone sucker-punched her in the gut. Imminently a nauseatic feeling rose up from her belly,which she suppressed .
She was still not sure where she was and the small white hands that came into few as she raised her
hand to her face did not belong to her. They could not ... They looked too fragile.
Slowly she raised her upper body of te floor still cautious of her stomach which seemed to enjoy
a rollercoaster ride while she suffered the consequences.
When she stemmed herself of the ground suddenly her hearing returned giving her the impression of a
swarm of bees running amok in her brain.
Groaning again she held her head as she sat down in a comfortable lotus position.
The buzz died down slowly being replaced by whispers. It seems like she was surrounded and instead
of helping her they stood around talking to each other.
After a minute of collecting her bearing she opened her eyes to assess the situation
and almost fell unconscious again.
What she saw was to .... Unusual to be true.
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It seemed like she was in a grand ancient Chinese entrance hall, with columns at the sides and decorated
with dragons and other mystic beings.
The whole hall was in a red colour, except for the animals, they had a golden hue to them shining slightly.
As she looked around her gaze fell on the men who sat in front of her on a pedestal.
He looked old. Like a grandfather ,with long hair cascading from his head in small waves down
to the middle of his back and he had a cute goat beard. But his blue eyes were ice-cold.
And they were fixed on her.
The old-fashioned Chinese clothes he wore commanded authority and it seemed like he judged her.
She did not know this man but it seemed like she already made an enemy.
Only than did she look at the other people present.
They were arranged by their age, the elder sitting nearer to the Goaty-Grandfather .
They all looked related. Was it a nose here or an eyebrow there they all had some kind of similarity.
She concluded that they must all be family, and the younger generation stood behind the older one.
But that did not stop all of them from talking, not as if she understood them.
She grew up only learning English,german and a little french but this new language sounded more like an Asian one.
Just as she wished to understand the words a sudden rush of power enveloped her body and she could hear the voices getting clearer and suddenly she even knew
what they were talking about. Her.
Interested she listened to all the accusations wich were thrown at her, but since she had no memory
of the bodies original owner, she could not verify it.
It seems like she was the child of a concubine to one of the main members of a high-class Shimeili.
And it also seems like in the last few months this bodies former owner tried to land a husband and was
now accused of whoring.
Suddenly the Goaty lifted his hand and the hall quiet down.
"Zhuxing Shimeili, I with my authority as the head of the family sentence you to banishment from our
family and since you tarnished our name you will be sacrificed to the Great Dragon God."
You've got to be kidding be !!!