Chapter Twenty-Eight
AudenFour days later, and Poe is out of hospital and back at Thornchapel. Specialist appointments have been lined up; I’ve brought in a rose cutting so it can be tested for sporotrichosis or something similar; they’ve scanned all the scans and bled all the blood for an array of tests. Currently she’s taking anti-inflammatories like the others, and she’s also claiming she’s well enough to work in the library, which I allow on the condition that I be in there with her to make sure she’s not overtaxing herself.
By her request, we haven’t told her father. In fact, no one’s parents know—the consensus being that the parents would somehow intuit the connection to Thornchapel and either demand their children leave—or come here themselves and cause an even bigger mess.
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