Ten
I wake up with my back on something soft and my legs on something prickly. My head doesn’t feel weird and woozy anymore, but the rest of my body still aches. I blink a few times and the moon comes into focus behind a silhouette of tree branches.
“Damn, I was hoping you’d stay knocked out a little longer,” Ryn says from somewhere beside me.
I push myself up, wincing at the pain in my hands. “And why is that? Were you enjoying the quiet?”
“No, I’m about to break into a house and steal stuff, and I figured you wouldn’t approve.”
I look past the tree I’m sitting beneath and see a house. “Are we in someone’s garden?”
“Yes.”
“And you’re going to steal from whoever lives in there?”
“Yes. There are things we need if we’re hoping to get home alive, and we need to make do without magic u
