✦Dolly✦
No one let me sleep after Malachar spoke. Not that I could have. The moment the windows frosted over at the packhouse, everyone panicked in different ways. My father wanted me home. Grayson wanted the wards checked. Blaise wanted tests. Ronnie wanted the Magic School locked down. Cybil wanted to disappear again and look into the in-between. I told her that if she vanished without answering more questions, I would personally learn how to summon her in the most inconvenient places possible. She had looked proud, she had smiled, and then she had vanished anyway.
So yes, I hated her a little.
By morning, the whole of Skaydal felt stretched thin. The Magic School was where we went first. I didn’t want to go. Which meant, of course, everyone decided I needed to go. Ronnie walked ahead
