Chapter 10
PEOPLE STARED AT ME, as I walked along the street, heading back toward the Council buildings. I didn’t understand why. Did I have some kind of target on my back? My insides crawled with unease. Did they know something I didn’t?
No-one spoke to me, nor to any of my escorts, which didn’t really surprise me. They were intimidating. And if people knew they were from the Council, I highly doubted they wanted to draw attention to themselves in any way, even if they weren’t doing anything wrong.
I had to force myself to breathe with every step I took, as vampire-style butterflies took over my belly, biting and twisting as they moved. Part of me wanted to stop walking, to clutch my stomach and keel over due to the pain, but I pushed through it.
From my peripheral, I could not help b
