Chapter 61 An Unexpected Ally

• It was weeks of hard feeling the presence of The Raven and not having a good night’s sleep after that happened. Chase and I were let go after just a few hours of aggressive interrogation which ended with the warning that we should not get involved with affairs that did not concern us. But it was the cold, calculating eyes of The Raven which threatened us even after he was gone, those moments when he toyed with us from shadows were what we remember, what we feared. But why will he even let us go?
• We have withdrawn emotionally and socially as well, which made us strive to attend our classes and pretend to live our mundane lives. But, what is left unseen is resentment and anxiety. Powerless we were, as we saw, our well-researched information was now worth nothing to The Raven as he knows that we are onto him.
• But everything was about to change, on a Wednesday, a gloomy day during lunch break at school. Chase and I were sitting in our favorite place in the café, ordering food that we hardly ate when a shadow covered the table.