Chapter 18

When Lyra woke up, she could not tell where she was for a moment. Dazed, she looked around, and that was when she realised she was in Alpha Zero’s room. But how? She remembered leaving Julian’s room, walking back to the dormitory…but it had been locked. She must have fallen asleep outside the door. That did not explain how she ended up in Zero’s room. “You passed out,” Rae told her. “Alpha Zero found you and brought you here.” “Oh,” Lyra mumbled, feeling embarrassed. Alpha Zero kept finding her at her worst. She did not want to imagine how she must have looked when he found her. As she rose from the bed, she realised the pains and aches from the injuries she had attained the other day. After last nights, uh, events, she must have been feeling especially sore. But she felt oddly refreshed. She folded back the sleeve of Julian’s robe, which she was still wearing, to check the injury on her arm. She was met by smooth skin. Frowning, she checked her shoulder. The injury there was gone too.