When Aster woke again, his head was pounding and the light hurt. Wait… light? Wasn’t it night just now? He was just sleeping in his bedroll, and then-

Then, his conscious mind came to. He remembered being pulled out of sleep, the rough, grabbing hands, the cloth and how his head felt so light and so heavy all at once. His eyes snapped open and he instinctively jumped into action. The light still hurt his eyes and he couldn’t quite see yet, but he knew immediately that he ...