ELEANOR~•~The room I was locked in had a window that faced the compound and I'd been sitting at it since before the sun came up, watching the guards move through their rotations below.Matilda was still out there somewhere.That was the thing I kept coming back to. Everything else, Armando, Matteo, the poison, the basement, all of it was sitting right there at the edges of my mind, but Matilda was at the center. My little sister in some room I couldn't picture, with people I didn't know, and a body that was already fighting hard enough without adding fear on top of it.I pressed my forehead against the glass and closed my eyes, trying to hold on a little longer.A tray of food was on the floor near the door where the guard had left it an hour ago but I still hadn't touched it, not because I wasn't hungry. I was. My stomach had been making itself known since last night, but eating felt like the wrong thing to be doing right now.I looked at the tray for a long moment and then I got u
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