Madison had made arrangements to spend spring break with Azrael in Boston, and she was actually looking forward to it. She rarely spent time with just Azrael, and Boston would be fun. She wanted to be in a larger city, and she hoped to visit Cambridge while she was there and see Harvard. She had been accepted there in the fall, although she hadn’t told anyone about that, not even Cillian or Jane. She wasn’t sure she wanted to go, but she had applied on a whim and of course gotten in. She almost felt like she had to go if she told people she got accepted, so she had kept it a secret. If she visited over spring break and liked it, then she would tell people.
Azrael was supposed to pick her up from school after class, and Cillian agreed to wait with her. Cillian noted that M
