When Maera awoke, for a moment, she felt completely disoriented. She’d been so used to the dark that the light which spread through the room hurt her eyes. She was actually on a mattress on the bare floor. It was not disorderly, but the lack of furnishings made her surroundings look dull.
It was clearly not a bedroom, but a storage space considering the boxes which were cluttered at the back. Throwing away the thin bedcover, she scrambled to her feet to stare out of the window.
High walls greeted her eyes which blocked the view to the garden and the royal chambers, but she could see the stone machicolations at the top of the walls and the half cylinder towers. Was she in one of the towers?
Sighing, she looked away from the window but found the door locked. Glancing down at herself, sh
