"Carl… Carl…" A familiar voice called out to Carl from a distance. He opened his eyes blearily and Hervor's pretty face immediately came into view. He stared at her in confusion and asked, "Hervor? Are we… are we in hell?"
Hervor burst out laughing and her smile was positively mesmerizing. "Carl, we're still alive."
"What?" Carl massaged his temples and struggled to sit up. He still remembered how the lich had suddenly turned around to attack him when they were in the desert, so he thought he was dead.
"Where are we?" Carl looked around and realized he was inside a very luxuriously furnished room. It looked like a bedroom belonging to an aristocrat.
"I have no idea," said Hervor as she shook her head. "When I woke up, I found myself on the bed, while you were left on the floor. What ha
