Chapter 8: Night TerrorsAdam quickly learned the rules of the orphanage, and once he did, he felt more at ease: No running in the corridors; respectful behavior towards each other and the priestesses; use your silverware to eat; clean up after yourself; games are allowed until eight P.M., then it’s lights out in the bedroom; always tell the truth; stay close to the house when it rains; and the most important rule, or so the priestesses had stressed: Don’t worry.
“Leave the worrying to us,” Miss Kate had told him, “that’s what we’re here for. You just grow up and have fun.”
His bed was in the far corner of the sleeping room, in sight of the others but not close enough so that they could engage in nightly conversation with him. They did that, Adam noticed. Some of them would get up right a
