Mirellie
“You also need to know their Elders too. They are very important.”
I groaned louder as my soul quietly left my body. For several moments, I simply stared at the photographs spread before me. I was going to embarrass myself.
There was no avoiding it.
The realization settled heavily inside me. Yet beneath all that panic, another thought kept returning.
Calliope. Was she preparing for tomorrow too? Of course she was.
She had spent years attending events like this. She knew the rules, the people and the expectations. She knew which families mattered, which alliances existed and which conversations carried hidden meanings.
Unlike me, she belonged in those rooms.
A strange feeling settled over me. Because until now, I hadn’t really stopped to think about what tomorrow meant for
