After the sun had already set, Leo finally got his consciousness back.
"Uggh!!" He groaned, instinctively reaching up to shield his eyes, but his arm felt… wrong.
He didn't have the strength to raise his hand. It felt heavy and sluggish. The unnatural strength that head acquired over the past month was gone, replaced by a dull, aching lethargy.
He opened his eyes, blinking to adjust his eyes to the light.
He was in his own bed, or to me more precise the Lord's bed that he had usurped along with his wife.
Speaking of his wife, Seraphine was sitting in a chair by the bed, asleep, her head resting on her hand.
And Belladonna was pacing by the door, her hands behind her back a she was lost in her thoughts.
Leo tried to sit up.
His abdominal muscles protested, screaming in a way they hadn't since the day he pulled his first all-nighter while playing Eldora Online on that wooden chair.
