The White Rose

2. June 19th - return

Soon after we left Savannah in her new room I headed to the main chamber to report to the Elder sisters about the mission. As I arrived I told them everything they needed to know, especially about the targeted attacks towards Savannah. It seemed weird that someone would want to attack a future member of the White Rose Order, but most importantly, how did they know Savannah was on our list for new recruits, nobody had access to those files, only the inner circle could ask for them and even then you would have to ask direct permission to the Elder sisters. After hearing everything, the Second Elder sister asked me to be discreet with the matter and to be on guard at all times. It seemed as if someone was attempting to weaken de White Rose order.

As I walked to my room I could not stop thinking about the guy I had met, he was so different from the other men I had interacted with before. But to be honest I hadn’t had that much interaction with men over the years. It’s not that it’s prohibited but the White Rose is exclusively constituted of women and as a loyal member you pledge to give up all aspects of your life for the Order, it’s not easy to have time to go to the city let alone socialize.

I wonder what that strange man's name was. I couldn’t have asked because it is not something of relevance, but a part of me regretted it. I tried to distract myself, trained all night and read a book about the abilities of animals during combat, seemed to me that it was quite inteligente of someone to attack using dogs, there was no way of tracing the attack back onto him or her, and dogs wouldn’t be able to be interrogated.

I couldn’t turn my brain off all night, God knows I tried. I had his dark eyes impregnated on my mind. A strange feeling started to generate in my chest, it was like an adrenaline rush mixed with anxiety. I have never been an emotional person, but these feelings were something I could not repres no matter how hard I tried. To be honest it made me anxious to feel like I could not control what I was feeling.

The next morning I updated my sisters and we trained. I felt as if something was off, maybe they were scared, maybe they were tired, whatever it was, I could not allow it to affect us. I decided to prepare a bonding circle and asked them to join me at night. Bonding circles where the way the White Rose has managed to connect the sisters and prevent secrecy between us, specially from the Prime líder. I went to the dark room, a room with only two doors and no windows, so that people feel more calm and know that no one outside is listening, so that they can share their darkest secrets. I put a candle for every Sister, and waited with my candle in one hand. We hadn’t done this in a while, and it accrued to me that Sophia had never done it, I wondered what would come out that night.

As my Sisters arrived they each grabbed a candle and sat on the floor creating a circle. One by one they started to share their secrets. Sophia's turn came up and a strange tense feeling spread through the room, her respiration became stronger and stronger and I felt as u could even hear her heart from across the room, pounding so fast I thought it would burst.