Adrienne woke up and did not know where she was.She lay still for a moment with her eyes on the ceiling, waiting for her head to catch up with the rest of her. It was slow to do it. There was a heaviness sitting behind her eyes that made everything feel slightly removed from itself, like she was thinking through water. The room around her was large and dim and she did not recognize the curtains or the furniture or the particular way the morning light was coming through the gap in the drapes and falling across the floor in one long pale strip.She turned her head and looked around properly and then everything caught up at once.Orion's room.She knew it without being told. The room had the same quality he did, large and unhurried and dark in its colors, nothing ornate, nothing that was there just to be looked at. The furniture was heavy dark wood and the curtains were deep green and everything was exactly where it was supposed to be without being arranged. She had never been inside th
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