I'll slam the door!

Andraste panted hard as she tried to catch her breath. Her chest tightened as beads of sweat started to come out from her youthful and silken skin. She gasped and gasped for air until.

"Father, no!" she shouted as her body jumped straight out of her bed. "Cough! Cough! Cough!"

Andraste Csilla glanced about her uncertainly. But all there was that greeted her vision was the darkness that loomed in her bedroom. Mist and gloom massed everything, but the bright flicker of the lamp's fire burned within the top of her bedside table. 

Pant Pant Pant

Then suddenly, not long after she awoke, there was a loud and forceful knock that banged on her door. 

Knock! Knock! Knock!