Chapter 24

• “Kara.” Alona was beside me. “We’re not telling this to upset you.”
• I glanced at her. “It’s hard to unhear that.” I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. I’d been on the other end of being forced to do something. No choice in the direction of your life. Most of the time I avoided getting in the middle of things, or tried to. Sometimes I couldn’t go the other way, no matter how much I told my legs to run. But this—this happening to women was… I looked at the floor, even with my vast knowledge of words, I didn’t have one that adequately described how wrong and awful this was. “Can-can I help find the rest?” I looked back to her, then turned and watched the other women watching me. “I can-can do something. Listen to thoughts or even stick arrows in people, I don’t like to harm others, but some…”
• “Have it coming.” Autumn finished.