[Music Recommendation: Sophie Hutchings - Living Light (Extended Mix)]
Before she could ask another question, Ivan spoke first, "Do you remember when and how you were captured by them?"
She set her spoon down after she finished her soup and nodded slowly, "I do, it was on the fifth of the month on a Friday night. After dinner, I was in my room when I received a note outside my room door." She paused to remember what was written on the note under Ivan's name, and guilt twisted her chest as she recalled how recklessly she had gone out, only to be captured.
Ivan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked, "A note? From whom?"
Clearing her throat, she replied softly, "It was a note… under your name."
Ivan's eyebrows furrowed, a dark line forming between them. "What did it say?"
"It said that all the answers to my questions lay at the back gate of the academy and that you'll be waiting there. Your name was signed beneath it."
"And you just went there?" He looked at her incredulously.
