Chapter 23
Miss Zenobia Weekes had built a pretty massive house all for the purpose of keeping a watch over the time portal in the back garden. I suppose she had to. There were no small houses on Summit Avenue. Most of them were proper mansions, especially on the side that overlooked the river valley.
I don't know if making the house into a school had been part of the plan from the start, the presence of students being part of the camouflage or what. Maybe in all of those decades she spent trying to reach her sister, she had just gotten lonely.
Whatever the reason, the house was huge. I could spend entire days moving from room to room going about my own business and never bumping into either Sophie or Brianna or Mr. Trevor.
But I would know they were there. I would hear the sounds of p
