E's POV
The room felt too still after I explained who I was. Their eyes stayed on me, each of them holding a different kind of silence. Irina looked like she was trying to piece things together, Penelope's mouth hung half open as though she had questions but couldn't find the words, and Roxana just stared with a sharp expression on her face while keeping her arms crossed and making it obvious that she was waiting to pick apart whatever I said next.
I gave them a moment to take it all in. Then I asked the question that had been sitting like a stone in my chest since I woke up.
"Do any of you know where Seraphina is?" I asked. "Did something happen to her?"
That snapped them all out of their silence. Irina's eyes flicked away, Penelope's lips pressed tight, and Roxana, of course, didn't bother holding back.
"Why do you ask if something happened to her first?" she said. "Does Seraphina have something to do with what happened to you at the tournament?"
