Chapter Twenty-Two
Decision
The sound of people talking woke her from a dreamless sleep. The voices were coming from another room. She recognized Dahyan, Paas, and Bric, which left one that was unfamiliar.
Rolling onto her side, Aggee sat up on the edge of the bed and waited for the fog in her head to clear out before getting to her feet. It was dark, and little moonlight filtered through the window, but she caught sight of the tree limbs’ shadows swaying against the far wall. The medicine Bric had administered worked well. Her head no longer ached, and she wasn’t threatened with dizziness when she stood. Someone had dressed her in a knee-length, dark blue nightgown of some very thin, nearly diaphanous material that flowed about her body. Moving slowly, she stopped in the doorway and li
