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Xiomara wouldn’t talk about the Hallowed Order, at least not yet Her foul-ave her comfort, and dispensed advice She told Kara not to speak of her abilities, or of herself, to anyone else Then, after less than a week, she left

“You’re still a child,” Xio “But corown”

She’d folded so into her hand then, a small token carved from bone or ivory On one side was an elaborate symbol On the other, an address — somewhere in upstate New York — scratched into the surface

It was an address Kara would visit shortly after her eighteen birthday

Four

It was past two o’clock in thewhen the car finally pulled up to the hotel Kara opened the door before the driver even rolled to a stop; that’s how eager she was to get away froan

“Shit, that’s a lot of snow”

Her unwanted companion had a tendency to talk a lot In fact, he hardly shut up Kara had tried sleeping on the way up, but being near Logan it was difficult The only real rest she’d gotten hen he was busy reading the file

“Any idea when this stor the driver Thethe second it e snow

For a second she stopped to look up The hotel Averoigne was an iht, even after well ables jutted forth, flanked by winged balconies and a rounded double entrance Perched on a cacophony of steeply peaked rooftops, dozens of chi the snow

This place is old, she thought So out of a movie Hell, it even looked like it was haunted

“Don’t worry,” Logan re with two bags in one

hand and a bunch of equipot it”

“Great,” Kara s”

She stoh the front doors and into the lobby Instantly she was impressed Tall colu, three stories high The upper floors were cut out rap-around landings, railed off by ornately-carved balusters and polished corner pieces The lighting up there was poor, though The second, and especially the third floor, seemed lost in shadows