Adeline squirmed quietly as she tried to turn to her side, but her body protested with everything it had. Her muscles felt heavy and painful, her breathing was causing needles to pierce her chest and her head felt like someone had been using it for a stand to chop wood. And if that wasn’t enough, she felt so unbearably cold that she was pretty sure that she had slept through summer and autumn and woke up in the middle of the worst winter.
Despite all those things keeping her down, Adeline pushed herself into a sitting position, holding her head with her hands. It took her a second, but she realized it was night outside and she was in her own bedroom, sleeping in her own bed while being covered with three times more covers than usual.
A quiet creak made her turn in the direction of the no
