Chapter ThirteenShe falls into a deep, dreamless sleep that feels like it has gone on for several days, but upon waking, she's surprised to realize it has only lasted six hours.
She startles a little when she finds Tiberius in the chair opposite her bed, poised and watchful and staring straight at her with eyes that are gleaming faintly crimson in the light.
"I apologize. I didn't mean to frighten you," he says, not sounding remotely sorry at all. In his hand is a book of sketches that he has done of her. He had been drawing in that book for years now. She wonders if there are others like it, hidden away in his home because he isn't ready to share them.
He sets the book aside and comes to sit by her in the bed.
"I was wary of waking you yesterday, but you know you should apply this pri
