The Nun's Lustful Desire
I whisper, my lips almost brushing her ear, "did you react to a symbol you've supposedly never seen before?”
She doesn't answer that one. She can't. I watch her mouth open and close on nothing, watch her amber eyes flick down to the necklace and back up to me, and for the first time since she walked past me on her very first day without so much as glancing at my name tag, I see something other than calm on her face.
I see fear.
Good, some cold, patient part of me thinks. Fear means I found the right door. I just haven't found the key that opens it yet.