>>5371096>>5371078>>5370920Well you can say with certainty, that you are surprised to have awoken at all, considering how things went before. If the tables had been turned for example, you would have killed the sea king without hesitation, regardless of whatever agreement or arrangement had been made prior to combat.
So why then, didn't he kill you? Unless, considering this place he has other plans for you.
<span class="mu-b">"Don't worry about me little man, I've been through much worse than this. That was only a battle between demigods, but I fought a full god once before... did I tell you that? Bah, you probably don't care, don't believe in such things right?"</span>
With your eyes better adjusted to the low light now then, you can take account of things. Aches and internal pains, though the visible wounds seem the worst; great tears in your flesh from the trident. Nothing but more scars at the end of the day however, more to join the others across your body from the many battles in your life. A lesser creature would have surely died by now, but after your rest and presence in the sea, you're not even bleeding anymore. Maybe a week or less and you'll be fully recovered, which is more than can be said for the sea king, you're sure.
As for your surroundings, it does seem that you are in just one of many crude holding cells within some complex carved out of a submerged cavern, perhaps beneath the ruins if you had to guess. What you can observe now though, can't substitute for what happened for you to end up here, or why Faysal is with you.
<span class="mu-b">"So... what happened? You know... after, I mean?"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Mhmm... the king was to kill you, but I tried to stop it. To remind him what the challenge was for, I gave the crown... I did not think it would work, but it was all I could do. With that, his victory, the king accepted triumph from his subjects."</span>
Although most of the goings on under the sea here outside of the Emir's experience, he tries his best to make sense of what he can while explaining to you, and it still sounds like he's going over it in his head as he talks. It seems though that after you passed out, the merman king stabbed you with the trident a few more times... intending to finish you off, and what surely would have been mortal wounds if Faysal hadn't thrown himself in the way, bearing the crown.
