Bab 23: The Secret Garden

Rache awoke in the bathtub with a gasp, sitting upright and splashing water around her. She blinked, staring around her in confusion.

...How long had she been asleep?

It must have been at least an hour. She looked down at her body. Her skin had pruned and she felt dizzy and sluggish.

She felt a little better for having taken the bath, though. She rubbed the back of her neck and stretched her arms above her head.

It wasn't the kind of warmth that made her happy.

It was just...

The kind that made her feel like her body was functional.

She needed to get up.

Get dressed.

Start trying to learn her way around the building they'd been forced into for a week.

...Well.

Maybe it would only take her a day or two to map out the place.

That left her plenty of time for reading, if she was lucky. There was no shortage of things to read in this palace. If she couldn't find some maps somewhere...