Aurelia POV
The note appeared under my door.
I found it when I woke, a small folded square of paper slipped through the gap under my door. My name is written on the front
I unfolded it with careful fingers.
‘Come to my room after the evening meal. Tell no one.’
‘ H.’
I read it before the meaning settled properly. My chest hit with a strange mixture of hope and fear. Hope, because Helena wanted to see me, and every moment in her presence had always felt like a small mercy in an otherwise merciless place. Fear, because after everything that had happened with the necklace, with Bea's sudden and unexplained disappearance, with Selina's growing frustration at every dead end she chased, I learned not to trust anything that felt gentle.
Gentle things in Silver Crest usually had teeth hidd
