With a dull thump the world slowly came to Radiant Spark. And then another.
The filly lay there for some several long minutes, her mind as weak and discontinuous as the painful throbbing of her skull.
Eventually when she did manage to open her eyes she found herself blinded. Tenuously she reached for her eyes with her hooves, rubbing away any dust or debris obstructing her vision.
Finally catching sight of the world she found it little lighter than thick layer of dust that her eyes had just been caked in, indeed, her eyes stung more than when they had been shut.
Her world felt endless, but narrow and restricting, it was formless, but lacked everything but clear outlines, perceptions of distances and rough, jagged sketches of walls alongside only the most basic of other structures.
The ground beneath her was solid and cold, she was weak, although at least for now warm in comparison.
Shakily the young filly stood up on her four hooves, much of the debris she was covered in falling from her coat and mane as she stood.
As she became more accustomed to the world around her, and moreover consciousness, she found herself standing on firmer hooves, healthy asides from the constant repeating throbbing that ran right from the centre of her brain to either side of her skull and right to the tip her straight ears.
Her mind stood almost as blank as her surroundings. She couldn’t quite remember where she was, how she had gotten here, or much of anything aside from her name, and the ominous felling that whatever she had found herself in it was very wrong. She didn’t belong here, wherever here was.
She also felt alone, but she couldn’t quite remember why. Like a presence had left her, a presence that seemed as essential as the hooves she stood on, but the presence of what, her mind simply blanked out.
Her mind did not even attempt to recall such a presence or speculate on what it might have been, as to her she simply was in this moment, there was nothing in her past to recall or think of, save the past few minutes or so of confusion and fecklessness.
Finding her hooves once again the little filly looked to her side, and trotting towards one of the closer looking outlines tentatively ran her hoof along it.
It was hard and rough, like lots of little jagged things all piled together to make one far bigger structure. She found that these rough surfaces got bigger and at least a little smoother the further and higher she reached with her little hooves back.
Her eyes slowly adjusting to the darkness and she found each of the objects to be fairly consistent with one another. Each had a roughly smooth surface and was covered in the smaller rougher objects her hoof had just made contact with. They assumed no clear shape, although they were all similarly circular in the loosest sense, with a few being somewhat more elongated.
It wasn’t long before she was able to surmise that she was standing in front of a large face of rocks, slightly inclining backwards the higher the rocks got.
Examining the world to either side of herself she found two solid walls, clearly made from the same kind of substance as the rock face, but solid and unbroken.
In the opposite direction she found only darkness, a seemingly endless tunnel that to her knowledge could last unchanging for a hundred miles, or end in a similar wall or pile of rocks in a mere 100 steps.
Turning back towards the rocks she had just been examining she felt a strange clinging feeling surge through her body, remaining there. Now seemingly far safer and more known than the endless abyss at the back of her.
Trotting back towards the rock face the confused filly simply lay her throbbing ear against its surface, listening, the throbbing in her skull seemingly to fade somewhat as she rested her head.
Closing her eyes all was silent, save for her calm regular breaths and the faint beating of her heart, her headache residing just enough to allow her to appreciate both.
She found herself yearning for sleep, but her mind was far too alert for that by this point. So reluctantly after a solid half hour or so of simply lying she got back to her hooves and decided to make something more of her surroundings, heading off into the only other direction she was unfamiliar with.