The ignored and excluded 9.1

I don't know how much time I slept, but no dreams this time. I wake up again on my own. My body is stiff. (Hm... I overslept.) I open my eyes, but I close them almost immediately. (Too bright...?) *SPLASH* "Wake up!" (What is it now...) Someone threw cold water on me.

"Good thing you woke up. Do you know how much time you slept?" (Sigh.) I open my eyes slowly. When my vision adapted to the light, I saw a pair of eyes close to me. "...Wow." (You're surprised?) The eyes had a ruby red iris, and the white part of the eye was completely black.

She looks like a female, but I'm not sure. (What a unique color. Wait...) I try to move. The pair of eyes finally blink. She gets back. (Wow. Now I'm sure that this is a beautiful girl.)

Pale white skin and very long white hair covering part of her face. Pointy ears and triangle-shaped earrings. A wrinkled leather coat and a ragged brown shirt below. Leather pants and delicate feet touching the ground. When our eyes met, she made a know-it-all face and smile.

"Do you really think that I wouldn't tie you up? Tsk, tsk, tsk." She had a notebook in her hand and after analyzing me again, she writes on it. I look around. I was in a simple house, with wooden walls, roof, and floor. The sound of her pen writing on the paper was a little irritating.

I look down. (Damn.) I was naked. (At least I have an older body now.) My hands and feet were tied to my back. (And I have hair!) It was long enough to touch the ground. Dark black, just like my mother. I have white skin and a fit body. (Look at my abs... Damn, I'm hot.) The writing sounds stop. Our eyes meet again.

"I don't sense hostility from you, so I think this interview will go smoothly." She grabs a chair and sits in front of me, at a safe distance from me. With the notebook in her right hand and the pen in her left hand, she started asking endless questions.

Who am I, why I was in the forest... I remain silent the whole time. I don't even move. I just stare at her. She takes notes after every question, even with me not responding to anything.

"Last question, what do you think about me?" She made a sexy pose. I frown in surprise. (What?) Her brow raise. "Hehe, so you were listening." (How old are you exactly?) She gets up. "Since you can understand what I'm saying, you just don't want to answer... Or, you can't talk?" She has her pen on the paper, just waiting for me to do something.

(Can I? Let's see...) I open my mouth. "...Cough!" (Fuck!) My throat burns in pain. I cough nonstop. I start coughing blood after a minute. The girl is taking notes, and she took a sample of the blood on the floor. I almost pass out, but the pain eased after I vomited dark black blood. "Cough, Cough... Ugh." Because I was tied up, my wrists and ankles were hurting now too.

The girl continues to take notes. I take deep breaths. (Better.) I open my mouth again. The iron taste on my mouth and the smell of blood fills my mouth and nose. "Hello... I am... Kall...Sol..." My voice is weak, almost inaudible. She quickly notes what I say.

"Kall...Sol. What a unique name. I'm Phoebe, a cursed and orphan elf. Nice to meet you." She bowed. "Where... we... are?" She takes a compass from the coat's left pocket. "We... are on the elven forest, more precisely, the abandoned Elchon Village, and my home." She puts the compass back in the pocket.

My throat was dry. I feel dizzy. "Please... Give... Water..." She nods and stuffed her right hand into the coat pocket on the right side. She takes out a metallic canteen from it. (Spatial magic...) She opens the canteen and waves her hand. The canteen begins to float in my direction.

The sound of my gulps filled the room. After I dry the canteen, my stomach growled. She takes notes again. "Good thing you're hungry. I've already prepared lunch. When I'm done eating, I'll give you some of the rest." She turned around and left.