*Daphne*

I met the man right on the border of our grounds, my eyes moving back and forth with heavy paranoia. It wasn’t unlike me to go out for a walk around the grounds. While these days, my parents preferred I didn’t wander unaccompanied, I could normally slip out undetected as long as I left just a couple of hours before dawn.

A dark figure stepped out of the shadows. We both met at the gate and I wordlessly slipped some money through one of the ...