Elias senses returned one after another. First was touch; he was no longer frozen in a block of ice; instead, he was lying down on a cold metallic surface. Then was smell, he could scent the cold breeze that smelled of copper and old stone, and he knew he was back in Stormfall… then the third thing that he felt was strange but oddly familiar, pressure… this should be the pressure of being underneath the Heavenly Restriction that covered the city of Stormfall.
He had always been living with this pressure, but he did not understand what it was or even realize that this pressure was not normal. Having tasted freedom and knowing what it was like to live without an invisible weight pressing down on you, it was hard not to notice.
