Chapter 18 So Much For Controlling

• Beatrice noticed the movement through the opened door. In the far corner of the room, Nicholette emerged from the bath house and into the dorm, still wrapped in her towel, initiate's uniforms in hand.
• “Are you here to scold me for taking Luna, Marie and Lillie into a suicide mission? Believe me, I've heard it a few dozen times already.”
• “I am, and you are still going to listen to it a few more a dozen times until it gets through that thick skull of yours, Nyx! Are you insane? Are you brain-dead? I've spent hundreds of hours, parchment in hand drawing up plans and teaching you strategies so that you stumble your way into a village and barely make it out alive?”