Andrei goes to say something when I hear a bang that makes Andrei and me jump.
“You heard that, right?” I ask, making sure I didn’t hear things at the ass c***k of dawn.
“Yeah, must be someone needing to speak to me. Wait here,” he says, climbing off the bed. Yet why wouldn’t they mind link him? Why bang on the door instead. I sit up, watching him leave when the banging worsens, before hearing a man's muffled voice yelling for help. I jumped out of bed, my heart pounding so loudly I could hear it and feel it in every pulse point.
"Stay in the room," Andrei says as he closes the door, but I follow him anyway.
“Are we under attack?” I ask him, suddenly petrified. Yet looking back in the room and out the windows, I could see nothing, just the first glimmers of the sky changing to welcome
