I stared around the room, then at Kassie.
She was staring back.
Kassie wore the same mundane gown now and somehow managed to look like a noblewoman playing at poverty. A beautiful princess who'd lost her memory and remained blissfully unaware she was slumming it. The outfit was mediocre. She made it look intentional.
"I think we've been scammed?"
She tilted her head, confusion flickering across her features.
"What does it mean to be scammed?"
I considered explaining the word to her. After all, it wasn't Ealdrimian. But then I looked around us at the cramped walls, the single sad window, the furniture that looked like it had survived three wars and lost all of them.
I grinned and gestured broadly at our accommodations.
"This. This is what it means to be scammed."
She studied the room with fresh eyes, then turned that cute dark frown on me.
"Swindled?"
"Exactly."
I nodded and collapsed onto the bed.
