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Begrudgingly, her eyes opened to DOT’s call.
“Mmm-hmmm?” It was the most coherent connection of sounds her brain could come up with.
“You’ve been asleep for ten hours, forty-two minutes and twelve seconds.”
“Hmmm.”
Dee didn’t care if it’d been a week. She rolled over to bury her head in a mass of pillows.
“Regina has been pacing outside for one hour, forty-nine minutes, and fifty-four seconds.”
Dee’s eyes flew open. She pushed herself from the bed, kicked her feet to dislodge herself from where the sheets twisted around her.
“Is she mad? Was I supposed to meet her?” Dee tried not to panic. Not making these powerful beings angry continued to be one of her main goals. Inadvertently doing so on her first day wasn’t the impression she wanted to make.
She scanned the room, looking f
