C21 Chapter 21

Beska lumbered up the steps of her building. The stairwell was dim with the light rapidly fading from the sky outside, in another hour she would need a lantern to navigate.

She rubbed at her eyelids. They felt heavy and sore, like little grains of sand had taken up residence beneath them. Who knew, maybe it was the dust from all those pages. She had never read so much at once in her life