Ten
“Um … what?” I ask, utterly confused. “What are you talking about? And who are you?”
“I’m Aurora. I just got here this evening. The professor told me there was another new girl, and I thought that since you haven’t got too deep into their program yet, and they haven’t brainwashed you, or whatever it is that happens here, we can get away together.”
“Brainwash? Where’d you get that from?”
“Because I—I may not know how to use my magic at all, but I did grow up in this world, and I know things. I’ve heard things. About this place.” She inches a little closer. “People disappear from here sometimes. Like, they just vanish without a trace soon after their training begins. And it’s made to look like Chevalier House has nothing to do with it, but how can it not? People come in here, and the
