[Content Warning: This chapter includes scenes that some readers might find disturbing.]
Ambrosia POV
19 Years Ago
After nearly catching up with Chrys five times, I finally pounced on her. We were as far from the basement as we could possibly get. We hadn’t found Phlox on the second floor, where our classrooms were, or the third, where our rooms were, so we’d gone up to the fourth, where the offices of the people that worked here were.
They were deserted - which was a very bad sign. There was always someone up here, but as we’d run by room after room, we’d failed to catch Phlox’s scent at all - as if he’d disappeared.
We felt the first explosion.
The rumble through the earth shook the foundation of the orphanage, and our outdated building shivered under the strain. I raised enough t
