A Leap of Faith (Part 3)

Chapter 432 - New Kaznia Leader

Talia now awakens, and as she opens her eyes, she sees that she is no longer laying on the ground of where she passed out. Instead, she is laying in a bed, in a room. Talia knows that clearly someone must have brought her here after passing out, which Talia takes as a good sign, as at least the Kaznia resistance hasn't betrayed her while she has slept, at least not enough to kill her or anything. Technically, Talia still knows she could just be in a prison bed, but she can already feel that the bed is far too comfortable to be that of one used in a prison. So, after thinking all of that through, in her mind, Talia begins to scan the room with her eyes, and she sees that is just looks like a pretty standard room with a bed in. It certainly is not a bedroom or anything like that, as everything is very plain, but it is far from that of being a prison. Soon though, just as Talia begins to sit up in the bed, and swing her legs over the side, the door to the room opens, and Talia sees the leader of the Kaznia resistance now walking in.

"Mistress! You are awake!" The resistance leader says, with a look of surprise in her face, clearly not having known that Talia was awake before entering the room.

Talia takes this as a good sign, as she knows it at least means that the resistance leader was not watching her, from outside the room, and by the sound of her voice, she is still very much brainwashed, and loyal to Talia, and Leviathan.

"Yes...." Talia says, with a groan, and feels her head pounding.

The resistance leader now quickly rushes to Talia's side.

"Here. Drink this water." The resistance leader says, now handing a glass of water that was on a table by the bed to Talia.

"Thank you." Talia says, and soon begins to drink the water.

As Talia drinks the water she realises that she is still so out of it that she never even stopped to look at the water, and consider if it were poisoned or something, which is certainly something she would have thought about before now if being handed some water by someone. However, even though Talia thinks this, she realises that even if the water is poisoned, which she hopes it is not, there is literally nothing she could do about it now anyway, so she might as well just hope that this is normal water and quench her thirst.

"What happened?" Talia soon asks, once she finishes drinking her water, "How long was I unconscious?"

"You have been unconscious for 2 days." The resistance leader replies.

"Two days!" Talia exclaims, being very much surprised by that, as it did not feel like she has been unconscious for that long.

"Yes." The resistance leader replies, "We won the battle, and ceased control from the military government, which was very much majorly thanks to what you did in the compound, including capturing the previous leader. We got to you just as you collapsed, and I had my people bring you here, back to the resistance base, so that doctors could take care of you. They said you have no major injuries, and were honestly surprised with how unharmed you are, as we know you were also part of an explosion too. The doctors just said that your body needed time to recover, and we would just have to wait for you to wake up. Since then, I have been checking on you frequently. The doctors obviously made sure to clean off a lot of the blood from your face, and body, but there are still some bits of dried blood that I'm sure you'll want to clean off yourself."

"Okay." Talia says, nodding her head, and taking all of that in, "What about the previous leader? Where is he?"

"He is currently being held in a resistance prison." The resistance leader says, "We have taken control of the Kaznia government, and have been internationally proclaimed as the new government of Kaznia, but we are still unsure as to how deep the previous leaders loyalties go with other people, including guards within various prisons. We certainly did not want to put him in a prison, just for some of the guards, who are loyal to him, to help him escape, and escape justice. So, until we can be sure of the loyalties of the prison guards, he will remain in prison with the resistance. Although, at this point, I should probably stop calling us the resistance."