Kyra screamed as she opened her eyes to see someone standing next to her bed in the dark.
If she had had her power, she would have flung that person into the wall right there in self-defense; or for just downright scaring her. But seeing as she was in the possession of no magic, she did what any other woman she'd known would do; she scrambled frantically to the farther side of the bed like a rabbit with its tail on fire.
"Kyra," called the person in what sounded like shock and surprise. "Are you okay?"
"Lorraine?" she returned, disbelief in her eyes as her vision finally adjusted enough to see the princess, Richard’s younger sister and her own best friend, smiling apologetically at her. "What in the world are you doing in my room in the early hours of the morning?"
"I came here to see
