Seraphina's POVI woke up and didn't know where I was and the ceiling above me was white, not grey wood with cracks in it but white, with a thin brown line running across one corner where the rain had leaked through at some point and dried. There were curtains on a window to my left, yellow ones, and sunlight was coming through them and landing in a warm square on the floor next to the bed.A bed. I was in a bed. Not a mat on dirt. A bed with sheets that smelled like soap and a pillow under my head that was soft enough that my face sank into it.I tried to sit up and every part of me screamed at once. My ribs, my back, my shoulders, my arms. I made it halfway up before the pain dragged me back down and I lay there breathing hard and staring at the white ceiling and trying to remember how I'd gotten here.Maren's cottage. The doorstep. The grey-haired woman who said "let's get you inside."The door to the room opened and she came in carrying a bowl of broth that steamed. She looked th
Read more