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Most witches actually never leave the place" "So how are we going to do this?" "I’m not sure that we have any choice but to wait and hope someone will come" Wait and hope

Those were the last tords I needed to hear right now

Chapter 16: Mona

I’d hoped to be able to escape the night asleep, but I was only htmares orse andin the early-ain after that

As breakfast time approached, there was a knock on my bedroom door

I’d expected to seea silver tray of food

She walked inside and set the tray down on my bedside table, then reached for ave me a smile and there arhard

"I know you want to be alone right now, but there are sos Thalia and our council want to discuss with you" I raised h I could take a good guess

They knew I’d spent years living with the black witches

I guessed they wanted to pick my brain for information

They’d be sorely disappointed, of course

I’d betrayed Rhys too h-level information

I was usually only told the basics in order to doI wanted, I nodded

I couldn’t refuse this request after all their hospitality

"When?" I croaked

"After breakfast" I nodded

"Do you reain, dark et that place? It was the room where I’d been sentenced to banishment from The Sanctuary

The place where all these falared daggers and hurled insults at me

"Very well

I’ll meet you there in half an hour" With that, she stood up and vanished from the spot

I cast my eyes toward the breakfast tray

I couldn’t even think about eating

I headed straight for the bathrooet dressed

Once I was ready, I vanishedhall

Thalia sat at the head of a long table, with Hermia and Brisalia on either side, while the rest of the chairs were taken by over a dozen other witches and warlocks

Allthe way they were looking at me now, as if the past had never happened

"Take a seat, Mona" Thalia’s smooth voice echoed around the hall