A Tale of A Thousand Years Ago [11]

I opened my eyes, and for the first time in my life, it had been so hard to just lift my eyelids. They felt heavy as stones. 

But when I'd finally opened them and my vision got a bit clear, I was surprised to find myself alive. On top of that, I was no longer hanging from the tail of the klauth, I was lying on solid ground. 

Above I could see the dark, but it was not the sky. Most probably rock…was I in a cave? I tried to reach the ceiling above with my hand and stretched it out, although when I saw my hand I was quite startled. 

Even though the fact that I was alive was pretty bizarre in itself, I still wasn't able to get over the sight in which I had all my fingers intact. If I remember right, which I do, then I'd lost a handful of them while trying to grab the scales on the klauth.