Intruding

“No. Go away.” I said mournfully. Forlorn because despite everything he’d done, there was no one I wanted reassurance from more. It’s ironic that often when someone is hurt, they want comfort from the person that wounded them.

That’s Jaecar for me now.

I thought of Lyra Lani but knew that tonight she was probably fleeing as much as I just had or suffering as I had earlier in the night. My chest tightened at the thought of her at someone’s mercy as I had been.

“Fine, Sam. You remember you made this decision.”

I rolled around to curl on the floor again. Wanting nothing more than to be left alone to cry for the next several months. It may take that long for me to recover…

***

I must’ve dozed off. I woke when I heard wood smacking against wood above me. I flipped onto my back. My blue eyes flared yellow to see in the dark and I looked to the high rafters of my hut. Seeing that there was now a square revealing the night sky. Stars twinkling in at me.

Which meant that someone had found a wa