Ally woke to the persistent bleat of hungry sheep twenty feet below. Opening her eyes, she found only a faint light leaking through the cracks that lit the barn during the day.
Damn.
Damn.She lifted her head and looked around, it must be even earlier than it had been the day before. She sighed and let her head fall back against the pillow. One downside of sleeping in the barn with the sheep was she was getting less and less sleep each night. Despite falling exhausted into bed each night. She hadn’t even noticed the hard, uncomfortable cot beneath her as the dreamless sleep overtook her each night. Exhaustion from working left her so fatigued she didn’t even move all night long.
As she lay staring up at the weathered wood over her head, she could only hope the winds would die down and th
