Chapter 106

Arya

Instantly, my head starts to spew out all the possible bad scenarios it can come up with. The first thing in my mind, for some reason, is the thing I saw from my window last night.

The human figure running along the forest lines with its clothes covered in what looked like bloodstains.

And I know that’s stupid and way too grim to think about. Maybe the world is just dissolving me into a big nutcase who always thinks the worst in every possible scenario.

“You’re becoming paranoid,” Ivory tells me too, just to rub the whole thing in my face.

“I know,” I tell her hastily. “But I might be onto something here. So just bear with me okay?”

She doesn’t say anything more, and so I turn to Kate and Maria. “Do you know what happened to Daphne and why she’s not here in school?”

“Well,” Maria begins to say, looking at Kate. “The truth is we don’t know, because we’ve known her since we were kids and she never missed school, not even when she was totally sick or when she had a family emergency.