Rin pulls up to her covenant house, in the front garden a winter rose is blooming red against the dead and weary grass and dead whelped flowers in the beds. White smoke is pouring into the heavens from two of the chimneys on the two-story house. Everything is still as it seems the day, she took Cecily and drove off to go and help Suzan, but something feels different to her, the sense of home is gone for some reason. Her heart aces to get back to Clear Water, why does she feel like this?
The house door swings open and opens to the warm living room where a fireplace is cracking away on some wood. Some of her covenant sisters are sitting reading books while chatting with each other. “Rin, we did not expect to see you here? Where is Cecily? Didn’t she not come with you?” one of her sisters sa
