Snakeroot by Andrea Cremer

Author:Andrea Cremer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-12-10T06:00:00+00:00

ADNE FOUND SABINE waiting for her at the top of the grand staircase with a welcoming smile that made Adne sigh with relief. After the freak show that had taken place in the training room, and after she’d been forced to slink back to that site of her shame once the others had gone to retrieve her discarded skeins, Adne hadn’t known where to go other than Rowan Estate. Sabine would be there, and since she’d been leading tours all day, she didn’t know what had happened at the Academy. Thus, Adne decided that volunteering to drone on about history and architecture was much better than facing her friends. She wasn’t ready for that. She didn’t know if she ever would be.

“Nice job,” Sabine said. “You only made up the answers to five questions.”

“Sorry about that,” Adne replied. “But can you really blame me for that last one? Who asks where baby gargoyles come from?”

“I was being serious.” Sabine laughed. “I think five is the new lowest number of BS answers for a first-timer guiding a tour.”

“In that case, thanks . . . I guess,” Adne said.

Sabine slung her arm over Adne’s shoulders. “All right, my dear, you’re off the clock now and our boys are preparing for that mission—so we have to take this opportunity for a girls’ night out very seriously. What sounds fun?”

“How about a hike?” Adne blurted, and felt her heart clench as she waited for Sabine’s reply.

“A hike?” Sabine cast a wary glance at Adne. “You do know it’s the end of the day? There’s maybe an hour of daylight left.”

Adne looked down at her feet. “They’ll be out at night.”

“Oh, Adne.” Sabine let out a sigh. “Don’t ask me to do this.”

“Why not?” Adne straightened, locking Sabine in her gaze. “I know I’m on lockdown because of what happened here, except that no one really knows what happened, not even me. Sabine, crazy things are happening and they’re happening to me, and I am not okay. I need to know what the hell is going on.”

Sabine didn’t flinch from Adne’s outburst, but Adne was horrified by it.

“I’m sorry,” Adne whispered. “I shouldn’t have said anything.”

“Don’t be,” Sabine replied. “I wish you would say more.”

Adne wanted to tell Sabine how afraid she was. How she dreaded sleep because of the nightmares that inevitably came with it. How she worried that she might be losing her grip on reality, but that if she wasn’t in fact going crazy, then the truth of what was happening might be much, much worse. She wanted to say all of this and more, but she couldn’t let go of the secrets that she’d been holding on to so tightly.

Instead, Adne said, “Don’t you want to see for yourself?”

“I’m not following.” Sabine’s brow furrowed. “See what?”

“Shay,” Adne said. “Sarah told us that she saw Shay dragging me through the garden and back to the mansion.”

Frowning, Sabine replied, “I’ve seen Shay. He’s a wolf. Nothing has changed.”

“What if something has changed?” Adne countered.

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