MINA
“Is it really you, Miss Mina?” one of them asked.
I looked up slowly. The two guards stood a few steps away from me, both still visibly rattled from the discovery of Rowena’s empty cell. One of them was the same guard who’d been nervously explaining procedures earlier. The other looked younger, holding his spear a little too tightly.
I studied them for a second longer than necessary.
“How do you know me?” I asked.
The younger one scratched the back of his head. “I saw you at the lantern party,” he said. “You were wearing the cloak, right? You were dancing with Alpha Elias. I think… well, I think everybody knows who you are now.”
The other guard nodded quickly. “Yeah. We just didn’t expect you to be this… pretty.”
I pursed my lips.
“Well,” I said, “thank you, I guess.”
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