Melindana’s POVI woke up on a cold hard floor, something damp soaking through the fabric at my back and a pain in my head so severe that when I tried to open my eyes the darkness behind them felt safer. The sky above me was black and scattered with stars and I had absolutely no memory of where I was or how I had gotten there.I lay still for a moment, breathing, running through what I knew, which was nothing. No location, no memory of arriving here, nothing before the cold and the dark and this unbearable pain at the back of my skull.I sat up slowly and that was when I saw the blood, dark and pooled on the ground where my head had been, soaked through the collar and chest of a dress that even ruined was clearly worth a big fortune.I touched the back of my skull where the pain was worst and my fingers came back wet with blood. Then I touched my forehead, searching for a wound because the amount of blood underneath me made no sense otherwise, and found nothing. I immediately notice
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