ZURI

The cell door clanged open with a violence that jolted me awake, though I’d barely been asleep.

The damp stone floor was my bed, and the cold biting into my back made me very uneasy, but I had closed my eyes anyway and tried to rest. Magnikka was home. Despite the position I was in right now, this was still home.

I was still wrapped in the stiffness of an unrested night. I blinked up just as two guards stormed inside. Why were they always stomping and banging on stuff?

“On your ...