*Kyan* I wonder if Emory doesn’t know. My letter from home was full of bits of information about how things are going in the castle. Nothing too terribly important. Mother sent her love, of course, as she always does. It was lovely to hear from her. But she also mentioned something else in passing, something I thought oddly out of place considering she doesn’t know that my roommate is from Fire Pack. Princess Ember is missing. I sit next to Jaxson at dinner, numbly stabbing into my food, trying to keep my eyes from flickering back to Emory where he sits next to Luka across the room. So far, I’ve been given a pass from my friends at the table. Everyone is so excited about the mail they’ve received that no one is really paying attention to what I can only assume is a vacant look in my e

