Chapter 19 ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

Garrick put my name on the report ten days before the Guild inspection.

I found it beneath Clove’s placement records, written in his precise hand beside the line marked Primary behavioral assessment: Bryony Finch. For a moment, I assumed I had misunderstood the form.

Garrick crossed the office doo...