Chapter 19 Good Morning

• L A N A
• I wake slowly, not all at once but in layers, as though my body is reluctant to return to consciousness, drifting upward through warmth and softness before awareness finally begins to settle over me like light seeping through closed curtains. For a few blissful seconds, I do not remember anything. I simply exist beneath the covers, cocooned in unfamiliar sheets that are smoother than my own ever were, my limbs relaxed in a way they have not been in what feels like forever, my breathing deep and untroubled.
• Then everything starts to come back.