She slowly blinked, focusing on the room - on the world around her that was very suddenly not outside, not among the endless reeds with nothing and nowhere in sight except the monster chasing her and those haunting red eyes.
Aside from Donncahd, whose large arms held her, Fiadh was in the room, a worried look on her face.
She knelt next to the bed, holding a wet rag in her hand.
Rache had a vague recollection that at some point there had been a rag on her head. Earlier.
Yes. There...
Definitely was. A rag.
Darrach looked up at her, sleepy and confused. He looked. Innocent. Completely unaware of the danger she'd been running away from all this time.
"Then...the..." She trailed off, voice slurring in exhaustion, dehydration, and. Confusion.
"It was only a dream, Highness." Fiadh smiled softly. "You are okay."
"Hardly." The man snapped above her head. "You have a fever."