Ember’s POV
The hum was loud in a way that it shouldn’t have been.
It was simply the whirring of the fan that hung from the ceiling of Matron Tilda’s office, but it was magnified many times over, it felt like the sound had gotten stuck in my ears.
Matron Tilda set the clipboard in her hold down then repeated herself, “We checked the security cameras.”
I waited with bated breath for what was to come next while muttering a prayer internally that it wouldn’t be a catch for myself and Mira.
Matron Tilda’s eyes bore into mine, with a prickling intensity and just when I felt like all the air had been sucked out of my lungs, She said, “We found nothing even after looking through the footage.”
Before I could give a silent exhale of relief, Luke added, “Going through it also led us to realis
