AFTER THIS
[ Mia and Maya were dead. Mia and Maya were dead. Dead. Dead, dead, dead.
The oust had been overturned. Someone had chosen Mia and Maya to die, last night. What had that person been thinking? If they'd thought Mia and Maya were bad badgers, the mirrors told them otherwise. Only one bad badger ally found. Matt Engarde and Simon Keyes, the victims of the first oust. Myriam and now Kristoph's team were dead. That meant either Mr Armando's or Uncle Ray's team was the bad one.
But when the vote had unanimously voted for Mr Armando and Mr Blackquill, someone had overturned it. Someone had murdered her cousins. Her innocent cousins.
Whoever killed them, they must be a monster. A monster, a foolish monster with a broken soul.
Not that Pearl has seen the mirrors, yet. She hasn't had the chance.
Trucy is the one that drags Pearl away from her cousins' corpses, away from the sight of their spilled blood. Pearl barely pays attention as she's dragged back to Daryan Crescend room, Trucy's room. There's no blood or corpses here, yet the image of her cousins is stained on her mind. It's all she can see through her tears as she sinks to the floor again. ]