Chapter 27 Edna

• As the night came again, they all prepared for their journey. They had to stay at her house because Zafira couldn’t walk in daylight unlike both of them.
• Zafira moved with a quiet efficiency, her face set in a calm mask even as the air around her hummed with tension.
• Cassia sat on the edge of the couch, her knee bouncing as she watched her aunt gather weapons — more weapons than Cassia had ever seen in one place before.