Chapter Thirty-Three
“Ooooooh!”
Cherry jerked awake. She’d been dreaming she was still in the Scythian city and trapped under soft fragments of debris. A nightmare. When she woke she was relieved to realize she was breathing fresh, clean air and that she was in Chimera, in Isobel’s tent at night. The light from the lamps at the center of the excavated cavern—lowered due to the lateness of the hour—gently glowed through the tent walls.
A quiet gasp came from the other side of the tent, and Cherry remembered a similar sound had awakened her.
“Isobel?” she whispered. “Are you okay?”
“Uhuh,” came the reply.
Cherry let out a mental sigh of relief. The last thing she wanted was for Isobel to give birth right then. The conditions were far from ideal, and though Zhang was there for that kind
