Chapter 22
By the time I reached the first level, my class was gone. I had hoped maybe Kyer or Brin would have waited for me, but no—I was alone. I went straight for the room where I had been before I was taken away by the Officers only to find it empty. On my way to the lobby doors, I ran into our guide. “Where’d they go?” I asked without preamble.
She jumped as if startled, then frowned down at me. “It’s late, you know,” she said. “You better get on home if you don’t want to be caught out after curfew.”
“Can you give me a note?” I asked. Maybe then I could get off the train at Kyer’s and spend a little time with him alone…
But she shook her head. “You’ll make it in plenty of time if you leave now.”
There was a finality in her words, and as she turned away, I suspected she was trying
