Chapter 40: What the Whole Valley Believed

Word travels fast in a town the size of Solvane Hollow, and by the time Wren and Théo made it down from the attic the following morning, red-eyed and unsteady and holding hands in a way neither of them bothered to hide anymore, Camille had already called Wren's mother, who had already called Priya, who had, in turn, texted approximately everyone Wren had ever known that "something big happened at...