Alpha Tophas

“Unnghhh!” I shifted inside the uncomfortable sleeping bag that felt like it had grown limbs that wrapped tightly around my neck.

I could feel the warm light of the sun pressing heavily into the back of my eyelids before I cursed briefly and stretched awake. 

“What the hell?” I wheezed, rubbing at my still-heavy eyes as I glanced around the small tent, not knowing where I was for a moment and expecting to see the wood walls of my cottage house in the woods, confused when my eyes followed the green tarp of the walls before sighing heavily as realization sunk into my pores.

What time was it?...