“Earth to Dana.”
Fingers snapped in front of my face, effectively startling me until I realized the next second that it was just Maria.
“Stop spacing out or you’ll get low grades,” warned Fin, reaching for another book beside him. We were all seated on the floor of his bedroom, supposedly to study, but it seemed that my mind had flown off to somewhere.
“Yeah, sorry,” I sheepishly said, “is it my turn now?”
“For a minute now, yeah.” Maria handed me the flashcards. “Are you okay?”
The truth is I wasn’t. I had just found out that Mr. Farden—one of the men who tried to destroy a school and bury Gareth and I alive in it—was missing. Ms. Townsend didn’t do a good job comforting my worries either, and General Pally was not answering my messages or my calls. It was obvious that the grown-ups
