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You lay down and everything fades to black. When you wake up, you find a pair of brown, slit-pupiled eyes laced with gold staring at you. The woman’s face is beaten and dirty, but her smile is kind and caring.
“Oh, you’re awake.” she says. Her voice is kind, too. You notice that you both have handcuffs and a chain around your neck. The walls around you are cement, and one wall is of rusted metal bars. You lay on a stone bed, while she sits in a folding chair.
“Where am I?” you ask. Her smile turns sad as she answers.
“We were captured by king Lorenzo.”
“Why? And who's King Lorenzo?” Her expression has become that of a mother consoling her sobbing child.
“Oh dear, you've lost your memory, haven't you? Do you even know your name?”
After some thought, you respond with no. Then you realize, she’s not human. Her ears are at the top of her head and covered in fur, and she has a long, slender tail. Both are a dark golden brown with black accents at the tips.Her hair goes all the way down her back and is the same color, but with black roots. Some shorter hairs frame her face perfectly. Without thinking you ask, “What are you?” She seems very taken aback.
“The same thing as you, dear! My, you don’t even know what you are? Take a look.” she says as she pulls out a mirror. You are stunned. Your eyes are the deepest blue. Your jaw drops and you can’t believe you didn’t notice your fangs as soon as you woke up. You are relieved to see that your ears are mostly normal, though they are pointed. You see a pair of horns on your head, the same midnight blue as your pixie-cut hair. There’s one more thing.
“I have… wings?”
“Why, you sound so surprised!” she exclaims. “It’s not uncommon, dear.” You realize you know absolutely nothing about the world you’re in. Who even is this “King Lorenzo?” You don’t want to sound like an utter idiot so you keep your thoughts to yourself. Once you really get to thinking, you wonder how she got the mirror in here, it seems to be a prison of sorts, and she has no pockets in the tattered dress she’s wearing. You may have just woken up, but you feel very tired so you fall back asleep. Then, you dream.