[Ryder]
I couldn’t stop thinking about what Violet said.
When she came to—after whatever trance Milo had put her under—I felt my whole body tense. Her eyes were wide, her voice low, her entire frame still trembling with the aftershocks of whatever she’d seen.
Celeste looked even more shaken. She didn’t say much, but I caught the look in her eyes. She knew something about that place Violet spoke of. She always knew more than she let on. But since she didn’t divulge, I opted not to ask.
If Violet’s vision was more than a dream—and I was starting to believe it was—then that place she described had to be the one that Hilary was trying to open. The one she was so desperate to reach. But why?
Violet said the man in the vision was powerful beyond anything she’d felt before. That looking at h
