[Quiet Man Cometh]

Not particularly keen on being woken up just then, Mirri gradually lifted herself up to near sitting before bothering to open her eyes. Though her surface thoughts were still working themselves out, her instincts and her nose knew that falling back to sleep just now would be a very bad idea.

She was fully alert by the time she reached left the room they were staying in, and was decending stairs in great leaps when the smell turned acrid.