Semua Bab The Lycan Prince Maid: Bab 101 - Bab 103

The warmth woke me up, bringing me out gently from the darkness, a low, steady heat against my side.The blankets were heavier than anything I owned, pressing down over my aching limbs, the smell of woodsmoke and something herbal, bitter and green.I opened my eyes to a ceiling of rough-hewn beams and a single window letting in gray morning light."Don't sit up too fast," a voice said, somewhere near a small stove. "Your body is spent and exhausted from trying to keep you alive. So, give it a moment to realize that you are back here."I turned my head instead and found an old woman crouched by the fire, stirring something in a blackened pot, her clouded eyes not quite meeting mine even when she glanced over."Where—" My voice came out as a rasp. I tried again. "Where am I?""My home. Such as it is." She rose, joints cracking audibly, and crossed to the bed with a wooden bowl in hand."Eat first. Questions after. You've earned the order reversed, given the state you arrived in."I push

POV: GinaI slept for most of a day, and when I finally woke, Maren was waiting with a fresh bowl of broth and an expression that told me the gentleness of our first conversation had run its course."You said you would tell me," I said, before she could deflect again. "What I am. What the Gate has to do with any of this.""I did say that." She set the bowl aside without ceremony, which told me more than her words did about how important the conversation was."Sit up properly. This will take longer than you'd like."I sat up.“I know you believe you transmigrated here," she said. "A soul from another world, dying in a world far from here, and then woke up in a body that already had a name and a history of its own.""You know about that too?" I asked, shocked."I know a bit of it, because it's happened before, though rarely, and never quite the way most storytellers imagine it." She leaned forward. "What actually happened to you, girl, is stranger and older than a soul simply swapping p