Chapter 10
“What the hell just happened?” Cinder asked, having cleared out Blackstone, save for Gerard and Daisy. They had retired to the living room; the time having passed midnight. He sat on the couch, Io curled up in the crook of his arm. Gerard sat in one of the armchairs, legs crossed at the knees, hands folded in his lap. Daisy was in the chair next to him, legs drawn up. “Please, Daisy, explain.”
She played with the hem on her dress. “It started shortly after Ran’imy got loose. I kept hearing these noises in the library and I thought it was mice. Then I saw one of them. I always thought I would be afraid, then I remembered when I was poking around in the very back corner of the stacks, I came across a very dusty book I couldn’t recall seeing before. It resembled a journal, of sor
