Allie opened her mouth to speak, and then grimaced at the pasty feel in her mouth. She’d obviously been sleeping on her back with her mouth open for a while. That was the only time she experienced this disgusting taste in her mouth, and her throat was dry so she’d probably been snoring as well.

“Leonora, could you fetch some water for Allie, please,” the blonde said, glancing across the bed.

Allie shifted her eyes to see an attractive woman with black hair hurrying from the room. Once the door closed, she peered warily at the blonde again.

“She’ll be right back,” the woman said reassuringly. “She just—”

The blonde fell silent and they both looked toward the door when it opened. Allie felt relief slide through her when Magnus entered. She couldn’t have said why. He was a virtual stranger to her. Still, she was relieved.

“It is good to see you awake,” Magnus said, moving to the bedside.

“I’m afraid she was a bit alarmed when she woke to two strangers in the room with her,” Dani admitted quietly.

“I knew I should have stayed,” Magnus said with a frown as he sat down on the edge of the bed and took her hand reassuringly.

“You’d been here all night,” Dani pointed out. “I pretty much had to threaten you to get you to go feed.” Smiling wryly, she added, “It just figures she’d wake up five minutes after you left.”

Allie’s eyes widened at the news that he’d sat at her bedside for so long, and then the door opened again and the black-haired woman returned, carrying the promised glass of water.

Dani unstrapped her arm and Magnus helped her sit up. He then took the glass from Leonora, and asked Allie if she could hold it. When she nodded, he held it out to her. Allie smiled at him crookedly as she took the glass.

They all watched her drink, which made her feel ridiculously self-conscious. But she felt better after a couple of sips and lowered the glass with a sigh, then looked around the room she was in. It was different than the last room where she’d woken up. This one was a pale yellow with a unicorn border along the top of the wall, and dolls lined up on the fireplace mantel. A little girl’s room.

“This is Sunita’s room,” Dani said with a faint smile as she followed where her attention had gone. “Elvi’s daughter.”

“Tricia mentioned her,” Allie said quietly, grimacing when speaking hurt her throat a bit. “I must have been snoring up a storm or something. My throat hurts.”

When amused grins were her only answer, she knew she had been and felt her face heat up with embarrassment. She also found she now had trouble meeting Magnus’s gaze. Clearing her throat, she said, “So we must be in Port Harry.”