LILIANA
"What is going on?"
The question escapes me when Sloane didn’t bother to share why Luna Gwen called for me. Liam hadn’t bothered to ask questions. He had simply walked away.
Sloane and I are currently standing outside the enormous assembly hall on the academy's first floor, where tall obsidian pillars stretch upward into a ceiling lost beneath floating chandeliers of pale blue crystal. The bronze doors before us are twice my height, engraved with wolves, ravens, dragons and symbols I still can't recognize.
My pulse begins to pound.
"Sloane..."
She finally turns toward me.
Every trace of warmth has disappeared from her face.
She looks...heartbroken.
"I'm so sorry, Hannah."
It does nothing to reduce my fear. It only heightens it.
My eyes search hers desperately. If she's s
