Chapter 13: Locusts

When Vevina’s eyes opened the next morning she found herself in bed in a pair of familiar arms.

The warmth that permeated through the naked body next to her and onto her equally naked skin made her sigh and snuggle further in. It was weird she hadn’t been used to feeling this way.

Freezing cold and loneliness was all she had ever felt even when she had been wrapped in the thickest of blankets back home. She felt naked even when she had been wearing clothes and bizarrely enough when she should actually be feeling weak she felt like she had been made to sit on top of a throne.

Turning her face to look out of the tall glass wall she could see how high up she was but it wasn’t that mere physical height that had made her feel this way. She felt the world was truly below her feet in more ways than just literal.

Shifting, to turn to look at the man who had made this possible she imprinted her face in her head. He was the only one whom she didn’t want to forget. This was a new feeling and she