9
Cas woke with a start, sitting bolt upright and staring around him. He had no idea where he was, how long he had been there, or even how he had got to where he was. The last thing he remembered, after interrogating his brain for the answer, was stepping through the doorway of the toilets, having successfully downed the Sinnac-addicted giant Valen Massio had sent after him.
Everything from that point onwards was darkness, though he suspected the pain radiating from what he discovered was a lump on the side of his head went some way to answering his questions. It didn’t, however, tell him who was responsible for the lump, when was sure he had taken care of both thugs.
He explored his wound briefly, but there was nothing about it to explain how he had got it. Since that was the case he f
