Escape

I woke up in my bed with a start.

My head badly hurt and I took in deep breaths to calm the pain.

I looked around and saw that I was in mh bed and even in my night dress.

How has I gotten here?

I turned to the window and saw that there were streaks of moonlight coming in.

It was still night time.

Then very slowly, it came to me and I remembered the events of the night and I prayed that it was nightmare and it was all a bad dream.

I remembered seeing papa dead on the floor with a dagger through his chest, dead bodies all around.

All the high lords of our court dead too while everyone ran helther skelter for safety.

It felt so real, but yet it seemed to just be a dream.

I touched my hair, but it was in a single braid as it always was.

Everything looked just like it was.

My heart started beating fast and I was worried that it was not just a bad dream.