Chapter Thirty-Six
Chloe awoke in the blinding dark, unsure exactly where she was. She was cocooned inside something tight, her body folded in half as she gripped the edges of the bath and pulled herself free with a grunt.
The world was dark around her, her mind still mildly clinging to her dreams. She cast a small fireball, which illuminated the sherikan bedroom around her, and smiled.
It had taken some convincing for Finley to remove the water from the bath for the adventurers. They had seen it as something of an insult to move it elsewhere until Chloe and the others had explained the ways and rituals of their own land.
“We just don’t sleep in water,” Gideon protested.
“What do you sleep on, then?”
Gideon palmed his forehead. “Beds. Flat, squishy, comfortable beds.”
Despite more g
