Chapter 14 TALULLAH
Talullah woke at sunrise the next morning. Anticipation called her name. Sun rays washed over the calm water outside her stained-glass window. Talullah had witnessed many noteworthy sunrises, but nothing quite like this. It felt like its own kind of magic.
Alone in the communal bathrooms down the hall, she locked herself inside one of the individual showers and scrubbed her body and hair with the hottest water her skin could stand. The soap in the bottles on the shelf smelled of ripe tangerines and eucalyptus, invigorating yet somehow relaxing at the same time. The long-sleeved wool dress and tight-fitting pants Suha had left for her to borrow weren’t her taste at all. They suffocated her knees and shoulders, and she wished for her loose tunic and trousers. But the cl
