*A couple months later…*

“Honey, you don’t look so well,” Madam Holsienne said to me while I sat up reluctantly in bed. “Were you actually asleep?”

I rubbed my head and said, “I, I think so. Weird.”

“How much wine did you drink last night?” Holsienne asked while digging through my armoire.

Jissabel soon entered and I replied, “None, I swear. I’d remember.”

“Would you now?” Holsienne laughed.

Jissabel asked, “Shall I ...