Clare entered the room, her vision taking time to adjust to the darkness. Narrowing her gaze to the only thing she could make out, a king-size bed, which she could barely see as it was, besides its shape.

Everything else was camouflaged in darkness, the curtains that draped the windows sealed, she couldn’t see anything else.

Annoyed,

She tried looking for the light switch by the door. Searching the walls with her fingers. The walls felt SMOOTH under her fingertips, unlike the cold marble they had in the bathroom.

No switch.

She was so tired, her eyes burned from exhaustion. The shower helped but not much in freshening her up, as she hoped it would. Instead, it reminded her of how she just wanted the day to end.

She drank the bathroom water from the taps in desperation for some long-needed rehydration. It was delicious. It wasn’t magical like she’d hoped, it didn’t cure the hunger pangs or the heartburn from the emptiness in her belly. And it definitely didn’t ease the constant cramps she had to endure until the moon ceremony was completed.

that he’d prepare her something to eat. All she wanted to do now, looking at the bed, was get into it, relax her aching feet from all that walking in the forest and maybe have a nap. While she laid on her stomach and forgot this day

but not her mother, not her death. That would always be something too sudden, too

soft drop, she squealed in pain and surprise as her body hit a hard surface. The pain shot right up her

the idea of how tired she really was AND the bed

to confirm her accuracy. She felt a hard lumpy thing. Fingers spread out she touched on something soft and cushy. Nonetheless, there was something hard on the bed, directly

life depended on it. Tightening the towel as tight as she could whilst her hand stung and burned from the heat of

deep growling voice yelled from under the sheet, “This

opened and lights went on, brightening the room, “What are you doing

heat, but there was

muttered, “Kalbreal,”

but looking into his orange and red sunrise eyes she couldn’t see anything

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