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"No, they're tracking her…but, well, you know how it is.”
"I never expected her to do this. She never seemed like the type.”
"Yeah, well, Sonya was crazy. Did you see how violent she was getting near the end? She was
capable of anything.”
I'd been trudging along miserably and jerked my head up.
"Sonya? You mean Ms. Karp?" I asked. "She killed somebody?”
The two guardians exchanged looks. Finally, one said gravely, "She became a Strigoi, Rose.”
I stopped walking and stared. "Ms. Karp? No…she wouldn't have…”
"I'm afraid so," the other one replied. "But…you should keep that to yourself. It's a tragedy.
Don't make it school gossip.”
I went through the rest of the night in a daze. Ms. Karp. Crazy Karp. She'd killed someone to
become Strigoi. I couldn't believe it.
When the reception ended, I'd managed to sneak off from my guardians and steal a few
precious moments with Lissa. The bond had grown strong by now, and I hadn't needed to see
her face to know how miserable she was.
"What's wrong?" I asked her. We were in a corner of the hallway, just outside the commons.
Her eyes were blank. I could feel how she had a headache; its pain transferred to me. "I…I don't
know. I just feel weird. I feel like I'm being followed, like I have to be careful, you know?”
I didn't know what to say. I didn't think she was being followed, but Ms. Karp used to say the
same thing. Always paranoid. "It's probably nothing," I said lightly.
"Probably," she agreed. Her eyes suddenly narrowed. "But Wade isn't. He won't shut up about
what happened. You can't believe the things he's saying about you.”
I could, actually but I didn't care. "Forget about him. He's nothing.”