Elena walked through the hall, surrounded by several other students shuffling along in exhausted silence. After arriving back at the church, instead of being allowed to collapse into their beds, all of them had instantly been summoned to pray.
She wasn't a zealot, but she was a grateful person. And these people — the way they'd taken care of them since arrival was outstanding. Granted, they were also the reason she was here in the first place, ripped from her world and dropped into theirs.
But she wasn't going to hold that against them forever. She tried to be empathetic. The world needed saving. She wanted to return home. So she was just going to help save their world and get back to her own life.
But right now, she just wanted to sleep — hence the irritated scowl on her face.
