Chapter 191
- Awareness of his surroundings came slowly.
- He didn’t usually sleep with lamps still burning, he acknowledged, yet the light in the room wasn’t daylight, and his aching body told him that he had had no rest.
- Yet, for all that, some of the frustration he often felt upon waking had been eased. And the ache in his thighs wasn’t from riding a horse, but a whole different exhaustion entirely.