CHAPTER 30
I ROLLED OVER, acutely aware of the burning sensation in my bladder. Why hadn’t I peed before I went to bed? Now I’d have to get up, and I didn’t want to. I felt tired, so tired.
My eyelids didn’t want to open, but after a couple of attempts, I managed to lift one. Everything was dark. Strange… I was lying down, but not in my bed. Had I fallen asleep on the sofa again? And what was that around my ankle?
I tried to sit up, but the weariness in my muscles made it seem like I’d been walking for days without food and this was my first rest break. I tried again, and this time I managed to push myself upright. Rocks rattled around in my skull and my palms stung where I touched... What was I lying on? It felt like velvet, but Edith’s sofas were leather.
A voice came out of the dark
