Chapter 16

“Aldric! Lysa! There’s news…It looks really bad this time. The undead...” Val knocked relentlessly on their bedroom door before rushing. She hesitated, noticing the rather compromising position Lysa was in with Aldric.

“What?” Lysa said. Aldric stirred beside her; his blue eyes were already alert and attentive rather than dazed and out of it. He also looked ever so slightly embarrassed.

Val squeezed her eyes shut as if she wanted to burn the image out of her mind. “You need to come downstairs, you both. Now! Uh…but dress first.”

“I’m dressing,” Lysa said wryly as Val fled from the bedroom.

She hurriedly fished for her clothes and put them on, though Aldric was faster with his and tracked Val to the living room, where a nervous-looking warrior stood.