*Arwen's POV*
Three days after Ashcroft searched my room, I stop sleeping with both eyes closed.
She didn't take anything. That's the part that keeps me awake. A woman who came to this academy specifically because of me went through every item I own and left it exactly as she found it, which means she wasn't looking for an object. She was looking for information. Evidence of something. Confirmation of a theory she already has.
I don't know what she found.
I don't know what there is to find.
Maya thinks it's about the locket. She's been researching Blackthorne bloodline history in the restricted section of the library for four days, using access privileges she won't tell me how she obtained. She comes back every evening with more questions than answers and the specific energy of someon
