Chapter 114: Pressure PointsThe trouble did not arrive all at once.It arrived in layers.First came the stares. Then the whispers. Then the messages sent from anonymous accounts, each one a little more reckless than the last, as if Jason’s absence had left a vacuum in the campus ecosystem and everyone with a grudge felt emboldened by it. Nico noticed the shift by midday. Elara noticed it before he did. Liora noticed it before either of them admitted it. Ravenna noticed everything and hated all of it.Seraphina, predictably, was already tracking patterns.“Three separate rumor clusters,” she said, looking down at her phone as they crossed the quad. “One centered on the marks, one centered on Celeste, and one centered on whether Jason’s death was ‘justified.’”Ravenna made a disgusted noise. “That last one is offensive.”“It’s also becoming more common,” Seraphina said.Nico’s jaw tightened. “So people are taking sides.”“Yes,” Elara said. “Which means someone is pushing them.”That
Leer más