~Alora~

Footsteps echoing down the stone corridor roused me from the restless sleep I had at last managed to fall into.

I had no clue how much time had elapsed because the guards brought me down here after that ill-fated council session. It could have been hours or days—in this windowless prison, nobody knew. The only clue to the passage of time was the twice-daily rations which were shoved through the slot in my door, and even those had become irregular since my relocation to this foul ...