Elene opened her eyes in the dark room. It was not the room she had been provided with when she had entered the royal palace. But it looked like a completely different room. The bed was much softer. The sheets were pure fur and the golden canopy shone even in such darkness. She sat up on the bed.
"Water." her throat was still parched. The horror of being dragged out of her room in the middle of the night and thrown into a well still haunted her. She wrapped her arms around her breasts as she started to shiver.
"Is someone here?" she would have never accepted before. But now, she did not care if others thought that she was a weak woman. The darkness scared her to her soul.
She stood up with shaking knees and went to drink water at once when someone knocked on the door and entered. The person had a torch in his hands. He used it to burn a few sconces in the room.