Book Two: Awakening

THE LAUGHTER, LIGHT AND JOYFUL, echoed beguilingly, skipping off the bedchamber walls. Loi woke with a gasp.

Was that Cat?

Sabyn snored quietly while she lay tense, waiting for another hint of it.

Oh, stuff it.

She slipped out of the warm sheets and quietly lifted her robe from the chair. The silky fabric whispered around her shoulders and she tied it firmly at the waist before easing the door open and sneaking out. Loi hurried along the ...