Chapter Six
On the second morning after Hildegard’s flight to Inselmond, Clara set off for her mentor’s workshop wearing a dark cloak with the hood pulled up. She had to sneak out of her house to avoid being waylaid by a hopeful reporter; most of them had given up on her by now, wearied by her steadfast refusal to be interviewed, but a few particularly persistent types still popped up if she wasn’t careful.
In the past, she had often wondered how Cas bore the media attention. To her, it looked an appalling experience, and she couldn’t understand why he appeared to love it so.
Well, now that she’d experienced it herself, she still couldn’t.
Only once had she been tempted to relax her strict, no-interview policy: when a couple of reporters from a paper for Shuchuni immigrants had come to
