Clementine:
After dinner ended, the ringleaders told us they were going to take us to the side hostel.
The new dorm rooms were aligned in a straight row. Everyone stayed unusually quiet.
Joshua’s betrayal cut deep because it had seemed like the only way for us to survive, yet he had dragged us into this with him.
Still, there was a small sense of enthusiasm left in us, a bit of hope that we might find a second chance later.
Maybe we could convince Joshua that hurting others just because he had been hurt was unreasonable.
We arrived at the side hostel. The dorms were built like small cabins with a single bedroom and a bathroom inside.
A wide road stretched between the two sides. It was a new setting for us, at least for now.
I did not believe that any of us were still under the influence of the shadow earth eater, though the others suggested Joshua might be. I doubted it.
He had stepped away for only a brief moment, and I did not believe he could have rushed down the tunnel, confronted the shadow eater, taken a piece of jewelry, and returned so quickly.
"Okay, everyone, go back to your dorm rooms and don’t come out to the main hall until there are lurkers knocking on your door," Miss Rue announced, looking sad.
I could see in her eyes that she genuinely wanted us to survive this place, but we had been dragged back because of our own crusader.
Everyone wandered inside. My dorm was the first one along the road.
The others followed behind me. Mira’s room came next, then Renee’s, then Sebastian’s.
It started with the red squad and continued down to the white and black squads at the end.
There was still no announcement about Joshua’s fate.
Having only one white crusader left in a squad was unheard of, unless they planned to let Mr. Rick stay.
I could tell he and Miss Lenora were the ones who followed the headmaster’s rules most strictly. I worried for Miss Rue.
If it came to merging squads, I feared they would place us with the white squad.
We stepped into our rooms, and I immediately noticed the difference.
It was a small brown room with a single, very puffy bed in the center and one window facing the woods in the back.
The view outside was so dark, and I assumed it was the same for everyone else.
The bedroom was a small square, and opposite the bed was a single door with two windows on each side.
I sat on the bed, noticing how springy it felt, then slowly slipped under the blanket and stared at the ceiling.
"Do you miss your squad mates?" my wolf asked, and I let out a sigh.
"Yeah, but I miss Ian more," I admitted, and she chuckled.
"Me too," she replied.
I already knew that. We had grown far too close to him over time, and it was not only because of the distance created between us because of Oriana’s games with my other mates.

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