TAHLIA~
Light danced over my eyes, making me flinch in sleep. My lids fluttered, consciousness spurred into wakefulness and my eyes opened to see Leona pulling the curtains apart. Golden light blazed from the windows, the sun high up in the sky. I winced at the rays, my sleep-addled eyes neigh wounded by their glare.
“Why on earth are you still in bed?” She turned towards me in the bed and I blinked. It had been a few hours shy of dawn before I’d come down from the rooftop with Fenrir. We’d barely spoken, his comfort offered by virtue of his sheer presence. An early morning breeze had frozen my tears away, the tranquil of the night, quietening my turbid thoughts so by the time he’d walked me back to my room, I’d been much calmer.
“What time is it?” I asked, rubbing away the vestiges o
