Heart of Thorns

QUEEN VESPERIA’S POV

The vines had loosened while I slept, curling like lazy snakes across my arms. My wrists were sore, but no longer held.

“Did you sleep well?” Florian's voice rang in my ears. He asked like this was normal. Like I hadn’t been kidnapped and held in a forest.

I didn’t answer. Instead, I stood up slowly.

Then everything stopped, there was a sudden opening in the space we were lo