I wouldn’t say that I slept, but I wasn’t doing much more than existing when Daria came into the room. “How are you feeling?”
I pulled a hand across my eyes and groaned a little as I shifted to sit up. “About the same.”
“I found an apothecary.” She held up a small vial. “This should help a little. Put a drop of that under your tongue.”
Daria handed me the vial and I opened it carefully, recoiling at the smell. “Seriously?”
“Sorry, best I could do given the circumstances. However, I did convince the apothecary to give me a job. We need to function until we can find our way back to the portal.”
I used the dropper in the vial to place a drop under my tongue. It tasted as bad as it smelled. “How did you manage the language?”
She chuckled. “I faked it as best I could. There’s enough Engli
