Riley

My legs were still shaking as I pushed past the clinic doctors near the main door, and the heat from the wolf-bane poison was burning in my lungs, but I could hear the screaming and the gunfire coming from the western nursery lawn, so I forced my feet to keep moving down the stone hallway until I stumbled out into the cold rain near the back steps. I saw Fantine standing near the edge of the brick archway with her daggers out, and Jayden was ducked down on the stone stairs right beside her while two northern guards were trying to drag Elder Thomas toward the open grass.

"Riley,...