Elene winced at the sudden pain that pierced her hand, her eyes springing open in panic. She opened her mouth to shout at Raena to move faster, but the only sound that came out was an incoherent growl.
The light blinded her, and she narrowed her eyes, raising her hand to shield them.
Light? What light? In the tunnels? It was too bright, this couldn’t be the tunnels. Then where…?
“Calm down, young lady,” an unfamiliar female voice spoke right before a hand pushed her back down. “You’ll open your wounds if you get up so abruptly.”
Elene blinked a few times until her vision slowly adjusted to the brightness. With her sight restored, her hearing improved too, and by the time she looked around, she could pick up the sounds of people moaning or cursing, snoring, or walking about.
She was in
