Cynthia POV
It was odd walking into Charlie and I’s room and not finding Charlie inside.
As I had expected but was dreading, Charlie had not been in the palace when we had arrived. There were also no traces of the girls or the missing carriage, and I nearly fainted when I found this out. Charlie being missing was no longer a terrifying thought, but it was now a scary reality.
I looked around the room, and I missed her even more. There were traces of her all over the room, from the jackets she had left on the chairs to her notepad on the window seat. Charlie was everywhere in this room without physically being in the room.
I had gotten so used to spending almost all of my waking moments with her, so for her to not be around anymore and for me to be unsure of when she would be back ma
