Chapter 7 Utterly Bewildered

• NARINE'S POV
• My eyes fluttered open, and my mind was sluggish and disoriented, expecting, out of habit, to be greeted by the same cracked ceiling I'd stared at every day of my miserable existence.
• But instead... I found myself staring up at an intricate, breathtakingly opulent ceiling adorned with swirling designs and delicate carvings, kissed with faint golds and silvers that shimmered under soft lighting, gilded by the soft glow of a chandelier.