The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy
– which is just a couple of baskets filled with the bare necessities of cooking supplies and several small, grey potatoes – and the saddest little collection of children’s books that he’s ever seen, alongside a single half-burned candle and a pack of matches.
“Galushka,” Midnight says, spooning some out onto a tin plate and setting it aside at her “table” – a worn red rug spread across a plank of wood next to the fire – before patting the floor, a clear invitation to come sit. “Is my own recipe. It’s shadow cabbage all cooked down until it’s nice and burney. The burning gives it the flavor.”
“What’s shadow cabbage?” Jesse murmurs, crawling across the floor and taking his place at the table,