45 Lara Trarko Returns Home

When Lara stumbled out of the steps of the dungeon, she blinked once, twice at the sudden change from darkness to light. She missed her next step and would have been sent crashing to the ground had Erom who appeared from nowhere not grabbed her hand. Everything was swimming before her eyes. The people moving back and forth, the lighted candles in the corridor, even the floor itself. She listened to the conversation flying around her head. Erom was talking about the crowd dispersing to reconvene at Trarko House. What was he talking about? What crowd? Again the conversation shifted to how she looked. Erom was saying she looked terrible. What cheek! Maybe she should be taken to her chambers upstairs to clean up or something. What? Lara jerked her head up sharply and tried to say something but the words were not forming. All she could muster were wild grunts. “She's trying to say something!” Erom gestured excitedly. Lara struggled very hard to form the words. “Home. Take me