34. IN A STRANGE PLACE

Light seeped through the space in the tent. Slowly, she batted her eyes open and the rays of light caused her to close them back.

Deborah rolled over to her size and soon, she was jerking up to the sound of iron against iron.

She took her environment in and saw that she was in a foreign place. Like a gazebo, the roof of the room she was in was covered with palm fronds. Like a tent, the room enclosed her and shielded her away from the outside. It was not heaven. There were no beautiful creatures with wings neither was she in a pit of fire.

The first fact she established was that she was not dead. That was the only thing she figured out. But she could not take away the distinct sound hitting her ears from outside.

Her head felt heavy and light at the same time and she could not picture everything her eyes saw properly.

But she was surprised. Memories hit her left right and center. Her hands made their way to her neck as she remembered Leo's firm grip around it. How was she not dead