"Ready?" Voren asked, standing from his chair.
"Bed," she said simply as she rose to her feet. They got into the car, Voren pulled out of the parking lot and turned in the wrong direction.
Seraphine watched the road for a moment, cross-referencing it against the route back in her head. "This isn't the way."
"No."
"Then where are we going?"
He glanced at her sideways, and the faintest suggestion of something crossed his face. "Surprise."
She looked at him, thought about pushing it, but there was approximately zero times in her experience that pushing Voren on something had produced a result she wanted.
She turned back to the window.
"Fine," she said to the glass.
The drive was long enough and warm enough and the hum of the engine was steady enough that her eyes started going heavy before she'd fully decided to let them.
She told herself she was just resting her eyes, and was asleep within four minutes, coming back to consciousness all at once.
