[Val]
After training, I went to take a shower. Stanton let me have the first one, as long as I promised not to use all the hot water. I’d had my own bathroom for most of my life. It would be difficult to learn to share with two other people.
I was glad that Clover was willing to take me on for training. She had really powerful magic and I wanted to learn from her. She still bothered me.
What she said to me yesterday was still ringing in my ears. It made me have to confront some uncomfortable truths about myself. Truths that I wasn’t ready to hear.
My entire life, I’d been treated well. It made me feel terrible to see Echo treated like a slave, but it didn’t stop me from basking in the attention. There was nothing to remind me that I wasn’t absolutely everything my fake parents he
