Chapter 14: Trainee
I stare at the gate and wonder if Grace’s sanity got locked on the other side. I don’t remember her hitting her head.
“Oh, stop being so dramatic,” Cadence chides.
Like she has room to talk.
“No, listen.” Grace steps closer, bumping me with her basket. “It’s an easy mistake to make. Ask almost anyone and they’d probably say the same as you. But think about it. It didn’t hurt us.”
“It tried.”
“That whirlwind? You scared it, that’s all. Think of it like a wild animal.”
I stare, blankly. That was no squirrel. Cadence laughs.
“Um, or . . . Think about if someone came up to your door and knocked, and then when you opened it they were pointing a knife at you. It looks like they’re there to hurt you, but maybe they wanted to borrow a sharpener, or show off their new kn
