Abide: An Awakened Fate Novella
“Grimacing, I pulled my eyes open. The blur of a window was in front of me, my view of it sideways. A dull throbbing beat on the back of my skull, but beneath my cheek, I could feel a pillow.
An arm was wrapped around my side.
I blinked, fighting the rest of my way to consciousness, and rolled over.
Tiago smiled up at me. “Good morning.”
I glanced around. A room of dark brown stone met my gaze. Overhead, the opaque glass bowl of the light fixture held no flames, though past the leaves blocking t...he window, a faint glow slipped into the room from street lamps outside. A door, the fejeria leaves on it tightly sealed, stood about a dozen feet from the end of the bed, and the occasional sound of someone speaking carried from beyond it.
We had to be at his place. I’d never been there before, but this certainly wasn’t my apartment.
Memory started to creep back. I’d found Tiago and the others at the Olician embassy about three blocks from the palace. Whether raucous by our normal definition or not, the party still had music and dancing and imported gels all the way from his hometown in Olicia – the multicolored substances being the closest thing we had down here to the alcohol humans drank.MoreLess
An arm was wrapped around my side.
I blinked, fighting the rest of my way to consciousness, and rolled over.
Tiago smiled up at me. “Good morning.”
I glanced around. A room of dark brown stone met my gaze. Overhead, the opaque glass bowl of the light fixture held no flames, though past the leaves blocking t...he window, a faint glow slipped into the room from street lamps outside. A door, the fejeria leaves on it tightly sealed, stood about a dozen feet from the end of the bed, and the occasional sound of someone speaking carried from beyond it.
We had to be at his place. I’d never been there before, but this certainly wasn’t my apartment.
Memory started to creep back. I’d found Tiago and the others at the Olician embassy about three blocks from the palace. Whether raucous by our normal definition or not, the party still had music and dancing and imported gels all the way from his hometown in Olicia – the multicolored substances being the closest thing we had down here to the alcohol humans drank.MoreLess
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