Chapter 14
Outside the dormitory, the insects sang in eerie unison. The moon above was a round orb in the still-dawning sky. I crept behind the bushes surrounding the courtyard, keeping low. My plan was to get on the bus—how, I wasn’t exactly sure yet—and get off when we were close to my town. Since Leslie was one of the girls going home, the bus would be required to stop near Naudiz.
I continued my low crawl toward the garage gate. It was closed, and standing up to open the latch might expose my silhouette to one of the courtyard cameras. But earlier in the week—when checking in on a patch of cheather I’d planted in the squirrel park—I’d seen an area in the back of the fence where two posts failed to connect, leaving about two feet of space. Circling to that spot, I quietly tore away at
