The Jewel
“Twenty MY CELLO ARRIVES THE NEXT DAY, AS PROMISED.
Though I don’t tell Annabelle about my conversation with the Duchess, she already knows that I don’t require an escort around the palace anymore. When I tell her I’m going to play in the concert hall, she simply smiles and nods, and continues changing the sheets on my bed.
I play for twenty minutes or so, but my mind isn’t focused on the vibration of the strings or the movement of the bow. That stimulant gun made the doctor and the Duchess very... happy—too happy. I should ask Lucien about it next time we speak.
I wonder if that’s what Raven meant, when she asked me if I’d seen a doctor yet. Is the stimulant gun the cause of her hollowed eyes? Is she being tortured with it in the House of the Stone?
I have to check on my violet. I need to know it’s still there for her.
I leave my cello on the stage and hurry downstairs and out the back door into the garden. I didn’t bring a coat and the wind whips my hair around my face and slices through the thin fabric of my dress.MoreLess
Though I don’t tell Annabelle about my conversation with the Duchess, she already knows that I don’t require an escort around the palace anymore. When I tell her I’m going to play in the concert hall, she simply smiles and nods, and continues changing the sheets on my bed.
I play for twenty minutes or so, but my mind isn’t focused on the vibration of the strings or the movement of the bow. That stimulant gun made the doctor and the Duchess very... happy—too happy. I should ask Lucien about it next time we speak.
I wonder if that’s what Raven meant, when she asked me if I’d seen a doctor yet. Is the stimulant gun the cause of her hollowed eyes? Is she being tortured with it in the House of the Stone?
I have to check on my violet. I need to know it’s still there for her.
I leave my cello on the stage and hurry downstairs and out the back door into the garden. I didn’t bring a coat and the wind whips my hair around my face and slices through the thin fabric of my dress.MoreLess
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