My brain might as well have been dripping out of my ears. As Seph and I made our way to breakfast in the Gathering Room the next morning, students couldn't fling themselves away from me fast enough. I'd even had a proper bath, the first one in months without just a bucket and a sponge, and fresh coal dying my hair instead of smeared all over my face.

"Killer," one spat.

"She killed Vickie to get her out of the way so she could get to Ramsey, you know," a brunette ...