AUDREY I was escorted to the hut where Shanti had thrown the girls out because of me by two guards to pick up my belongings. I felt the eyes of the people on me as we walked past huts, and I heard the murmurs too. They wondered why the Alpha King let me go after everything I was accused of. I wondered too and was even antsier than they were. Something was fishy about the whole thing, and it scared me. I even overheard the people saying I bewitched the King for him to let me go. I picked up the little to no things I had from the hut. Two shapeless dresses, a pair of sandals, a towel, and two books I stole from the library to read. They had the royal seal, and I was grateful no one touched my things and found those books while I was gone. I would have been punished severely for it. I wra

