A Breath of Frost
“There was a Keeper posted in the garden but he was there to worry about outside threats, not what was going on inside. And technically, Emma wasn’t sure she was even breaking any rules. It was probably frowned upon to be out of her room after hours, but there was nothing in the rule book about it specifically. It wasn’t her fault if those pages had inexplicably disappeared. And after facing a dullahan, everything else seemed a minor infraction.
She moved carefully down the hall. The teachers ha...d long since retired and the few fires burning in the grates were crumbling to embers. She made it down the stairs without incident, but had to dive into a potted plant when Mrs. Sparrow’s cat-familiar prowled toward the kitchen. She waited until the glowing swish of his tail had faded before climbing out of the dusty ferns and darting into the library. Most girls would sneak out to meet a handsome lad. Emma just wanted books.
She didn’t know how else to get information on her mother. Lady Theodora hadn’t attended Rowanstone since it had closed briefly when the Sisters were at their worst, but her defection from the witching society and her defiance of the rules was legendary.MoreLess
She moved carefully down the hall. The teachers ha...d long since retired and the few fires burning in the grates were crumbling to embers. She made it down the stairs without incident, but had to dive into a potted plant when Mrs. Sparrow’s cat-familiar prowled toward the kitchen. She waited until the glowing swish of his tail had faded before climbing out of the dusty ferns and darting into the library. Most girls would sneak out to meet a handsome lad. Emma just wanted books.
She didn’t know how else to get information on her mother. Lady Theodora hadn’t attended Rowanstone since it had closed briefly when the Sisters were at their worst, but her defection from the witching society and her defiance of the rules was legendary.MoreLess
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