“Why do you look like you’re in more pain than I am.”

I had been trying to lighten the dreadful pall that had fallen over the room since Valen and I had been left alone, and also trying to distract myself from the painful contractions that ran along the length of my torso.

My skin felt hot and clammy, but Valen and Meredith kept trying to bundle me under a mountain of blankets because ‘my temperature kept dropping’. I wasn’t sure how long ago I’d been transported ...