MARIETTA
The dining hall was quiet… really quiet, and all I was getting from the atmosphere was crickets… Actually, not even crickets. Hearing crickets meant I could hear little creatures that were chirping away in a field. What I could hear was more like the silent gloom of an abandoned yard and it felt like breathing normally would be too loud so I was inhaling as slowly and as quietly as I could.
We were already back at the palace and ever since we landed in the dragon yard, I had been trying to find out what happened to Crista at the beach but she refused to tell me. Even Ragnar and Mercer had refused to tell me and Ragnar had actually told me to drop it. On our way back, I had thought that it was just something minor - like Milan or Ragnar pushing her into the water - but after the
