Chapter Eight
I enter the room, keeping my head bowed in case there are people here who don't want me to be. About a dozen students mill around the room. It's more than I hoped, but less than I feared. Hopefully, I'll be able to memorise all of their names so I can report back to the others. That way, I may get lucky and not have to come to more of these.
"Lily, so glad you came," Emma says loudly as she walks towards me. Her cuffs still glow around her wrists, but her guard is nowhere to be seen.
I purse my lips, trying not to be affronted that she isn't being escorted around once lessons are over. I should expect it, after what Professor Meister told me, but for some reason, the sight is still shocking.
"I wouldn't miss this for anything," I lie through my clenched jaw.
"I don't bla
