Chapter 13

Lyra's POV

I couldn't stay asleep for obvious reasons and when I began to come to, the sound of fire cackling and the heat was what I could feel first and then there was the unusual hardness of the surface where I was laying on.

It wasn't hard for me to put all of that together, we were still in the woods and I was lying on the ground. My hands were tied by a rope and I was considered powerless as my hands were restricted.

I successfully opened my eyes and just like I had thought and felt, there was a fire in the middle of the gathering. There were at most four tents set up in the area and the rogues were busy going about their own thing while the ones I was laying in their presence were having dinner.

Some sort of animal was tied and hung over the fire to be cooked and become edible. They were all talking, getting in one conversation or the other so that nobody noticed that I was awake.

I cleared my throat to announce that I was finally up, however that sound was overpowered by t