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I relax against Arabella’s palm. “Why are you here?”
“I had a free period. You’ve been out cold for days.”
My stomach flips over. “What?”
The sharp scent of bleach and the whiteness of everything in the medical wing is at odds with the ancient world that seemed to be at my fingertips. I remember radiating, like a star about to explode. I remember the power coursing through my body, as though I were bigger than myself.
I remember it vanishing rapidly when I finally faced my worst fear.
Beside me, Arabella sighs. “All the upper years and the teachers went searching for you that night. When I finally found you, I thought you were dead at first. But you were all tangled up in the trees.”
Me, hanging from a tree, my pale face staring back at me.
I hold back a shudder.
“So I had to do what I did to get you out.”
I lick my lips. “Which was?”
Arabella doesn’t answer. Instead, she takes out a small pocket mirror from her satchel and slides it across to me.
Warily, I flip it open. My wide eyes blink back at me from a face covered with small nicks and cuts. And then I raise it higher…
To my hair.
Mylackof hair.
I drop the mirror onto the bed in shock.
“Well, really,” Arabella huffs. “I did mybest. And truth be told, it’ll probably lookbetterthan the unkempt hair you had before. You were really flouting Lochkelvin standards with that mop you called a hairstyle. This gives you a chance to make yourself look more presentable and conform. In all honesty, Jessa, you should be thanking me.”
