To Resist A Khione

She gasped when she woke.

It was pitch black dark when she first opened her eyes so she laid there a bit so her eyes could adjust to the darkness. The moon was high up, throwing its bright light into the room through the open windows. She had dreamt of that lady again and this time, it had been more disturbing than the last time and she had been having the dream repeatedly for eight days after the incident with Ryder and Eris.

Eris, she wondered what might have happened to him, since then she had not heard a word about him.

She threw the covers off her body and got out of bed, wincing slightly from the pain in her abdomen. She had to be stitched up, and thankfully they had done that when she was unconscious because she would never be able to bear with the pain. Xanth and the physician had told her not to stress so much so that she does not stretch the stitches, and Ryder had told her that is she did, they would have to stitch her back up. And this time she would