Amira awoke to the sound of snoring. Her ears buzzed from the loud rumbling noise and her head pounded viciously. Dazed, she opened her eyes, her blurred vision gradually focusing upon a canvas wall only inches from her face. She wondered who could be making such a racket. Her brain ached at the effort to think. Surely not one of her maids, and if a guard was sleeping at his post outside her chamber, she would have to report him to the king for his laxness. Yet she wasn't inclined to leave her bed to discover the culprit. Besides her terrible headache, she felt dizzy, and it was comfortable lying here, the furs so soft beneath her."Furs?" she breathed, confused. Her bed had never been covered with animal skins, but a fine silken quilt. And she slept between linen sheets, not under a prickly wool blanket like the o
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