Chapter Eight
The classroom, full of children, was as quiet as a church without parishioners. Books were neatly stacked on desks while the children awaited instruction. They dared not move.
The Penguin stood at the front of the class. The older children, with heads down, studied. Katherine looked up and over to the younger children in search of Elizabeth and found her. Elizabeth sat in the last seat in the first row, and appeared quite calm. Katherine was suspicious. Elizabeth was extremely content as they made their way to school. Content was not an emotion that Katherine equated with Elizabeth - happy yes, content not likely.
Elizabeth began to feel anxious and knew the Penguin would soon begin to change. She imagines a long cord coming out from beneath the bottom of the nun’s habit t
