Book Eight: Chapter 136

Naturally, both of them were gifted at it. Callisto could see her even when she was mostly invisible, and Grace was, well, Grace. Nobody was entirely sure what all she could even see.

“May we?” asked Charlotte, gesturing away from the building.

“I suppose,” replied Sulyvahn. “Unless yer leadin’ us to our doom.”

“Not today,” Charlotte replied as she started walking. Sulyvahn and Cecilia followed behind her as they moved away from the schoolhouse and toward the edge of the village where nobody else was working. Sulyvahn tried to strike up a conversation twice, but Charlotte ignored him.

They followed a road that circled the edge of the valley, then paused by some large rocks, allowing them to sit and look down on the village. The closest person was easily half a mile away, part of a group that had been in the forest picking apples. When Charlotte finally broke the silence, it was with a question.

“What are you?” she asked, turning to face the siblings.