As I gulped in large breaths of air, it occurred to me Morgan was no longer in the room with me. My moment of relief short-lived, I leaped from the bed and frantically began to search for her. With no sign of her in the room, I checked my room to find it also vacant. There was a chance she had gone for a drink or some other ordinary errand, but my instincts told me her absence was more troublesome. She had mentioned the castle capable of illusion, but those ropes had been a hell of a lot more than illusion. If the bedding had attacked me, what danger might have found her? I hurried into the hall toward the main stairwell, racing past door after door. After running longer than should have been necessary, I realized I could see no ending to the hall. When the Fisher King had showed us to our
