Megan POV

This limbo between being awake and crashing into the worst nightmares continues throughout the night. The pain is torturous. The monsters are agony.

Finally, though, I awake and see gold light through the window. I feel refreshed in a way, at least physically. I’m able to sit up.

“Do you think it’s okay to stand?” I ask.

I glance around the hut, which looks cozier in the light, but I don’t see my mysterious savior anywhere. Was he just a dream?

No. He couldn’t have been seeing as I’m here. He must’ve just left for a little while.

I decide to try standing, and at first, I am...