Mortal
"You can't trust what anyone is telling you. Until you know who you can trust, you can't even trust me."
She's still holding my hand, and I realize that it's the only thing keeping me from running away. Without seeing it happen, Alice has quickly become my lifeline at Hawthorn.
"Magic," I say. "I don't even know what that means."
"It means whatever you want it to mean," she says, smiling. "It means you can do whatever you want. You're special. You're one of us. I know it."
We pass through another corridor, out a door and into the cold air, and along a covered walkway to another building, all while my brain is spinning.
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