Chapter 230: Training Part 3

"Maddox," I sit up with a stretch. My body hurts, like it normally does when I've been lying here too long. "How long was I asleep?"

"You were asleep for nearly three hours, Miss Fallon."

I rub my eyes and glance at the pile of clothes at the foot of my bed. Maddox peers over at it. He's barely four feet in height and composed completely of rock, except for his eyes, which are hauntingly similar to a human's. The rest of him is made from varying red clay boulders and pebbles, stacked upon each other to form his head, body and four limbs.

He'd scared the hell out of me the first day.