Nigel

The little girl looked around, not knowing what she was looking at really. A moment ago, her view had been multidirectional, but suddenly, she could only see in front of her and not to the sides.

It took her a moment to realize that she could see around her, but she needed to consciously change how she viewed things.

"Can you talk?" one of the women asked.

The little girl simply looked with a gawking face as her eyes moved everywhere, trying to look at all the children she used to watch play and the adults that she sometimes saw.

"We're not going to hurt you," one of the girls said. "You can speak with us."

The woman who had brought the consciousness here looked at her. "Say I can."

The little girl's eyes widened slightly and she spoke. "I can." Everyone looked at her weirdly when they realized that she was speaking without opening her mouth at all.

"Can you speak with your mouth? Like we do," another woman asked.