Alistar woke up with a start, his head pounding with a terrible headache as he immediately fell into a fit of coughing. He was somewhere in the forests outside of Distan—he knew these woods well enough to recognize this fact—but he had no idea of the exact location. He was lying at the fringes of a small clearing, his naked body covered in dirt and soot. The ground was scorched in most places, with the trunks of the surrounding trees burning strongly in large swaths. With the amount of fire in the area, if he hadn't been lying on the ground with his face pressed against the dirt, he'd surely have suffocated amidst the dense screen of smoke.
What…what happened?
