I had the incunabula of plan.
Alas, my temporarily heightened spirit was extinguished at the sight of SJ and Blue being led into the theater. Seeing them for the first time in days should have made me ecstatic, but when they sat down next to me, I saw that Blue was practically in tears.
Their Therewolf guard instructed them to assist me with the shirt scrubbing. When he left I dropped my steel wool and turned to Blue. “What’s wrong?”
She shook her head in response—unable to get out a single syllable. SJ sighed and rolled her eyes before she brought herself to explain what had happened on Blue’s behalf.
The reason the Therewolves had taken such a strong interest in SJ and Blue was because they’d suspected my friends were protagonists. The higher-up’s in the troupe had interrogated both
