Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20150302024219/@comment-5583506-20150303222754

When Rikki woke up she felt something sting in her eyes. It was a strange pain. Unlike anything she had ever felt before.

"Hello?!" she called out as she fumbled around with her hand in the darkness. "Why is it so dark?! Why can't someone bring Rikki some light?!"

She felt a comforting hand grab her shoulder and press her down in a bed.

She gave out a squeak out of fear as she couldn't see who the culprit was. Her eyes still ached.

"Who... who is there?! Answer Rikki now!"

"Khajiit is here, great Listener", said the large Khajiit somberly.

"Kin'Jiro? Why... why is it so dark?! Why can't Rikki see where you are?!"

She heard another voice and felt a hand squeeze hers. "Ma'Javi..."

"Ma... Ma'Ravi?" she mumbled.

"Yes, listener", said the woman. Here voice sounded fragile. "Your aunt is here with you."

"What... what's going on?! Can't someone tell Rikki what's going on! This one was escaping from guards one moment and now she can't...." She tried really hard to focus. There was something aching around her eyes, yet she could feel that they were open. There was something wrong with them however... "Rikki can't see. Why is it so dark?!"

She heard the sobs of her aunt. "Rikki... You are... you are..."

"Khajiit is... what? Tell this one, aunt. Rikki can't take this pain anymore! It's itching in her eyes. What has happened to Rikki?"

"You are..."

"Blind", filled Kin'Jiro in.

Rikki froze up. It felt strange hearing them say such things. They were here, right beside her bed. She could feel it. She could hear them. But she couldn't see. Instead her sight was replaced with a chaving pain. An itch...

"No..." she mumbled to herself. "Rikki can't be blind. She... she has her eyes open right now! She can feel it! It's just dark in here, that's all!"

She got up from her bed, despite her aunt and her bodyguard's physical objections and stumbled out in complete darkness, trembling as she concentrated to find something in front of her she could touch... something she could see that she could touch...

But she was met with nothingness and she stumbled. She fell handlessly to the floor trying to grasp things that weren't there.

"No... No! No!" she sobbed. "Rikki can't be blind! She... she never got to see Xad again! This one wants to see Xad! Where is he?! Where is he?!"

Ma'Ravi and Kin'Jiro looked at each other with worrying stares as their esteemed leader crawled her way slowly across the floor. Her eyes were grey and... dead... looking at nothing...

"WHERE IS HE?!"