The sound of soft snores pulled me from my sleep, I turned, lying on my back and staring over at Valen as he slept with one arm over his face. Shit, everyone's going to think we did it last night, but we didn't. Will we get in trouble for that? The large window still showed that the sun has an hour before it rises. The sky wasn't black but a dark blue instead. I carefully stood out the bed and walked around the room, ignoring the way the floorboard froze my toes from the cold. The bookshelf was filled with horror and mystery novels, books were a very rare thing to come by. Almost every book was destroyed in the Grand War, it took years to find many things, books were one of them. Yet here an entire book shelf of books was, I gently ran my finger of the backs of some, keeping my eyes on