“So, we’re really not making it to the portal? We’re all really stuck here?”
Francina kept rhetorically asking while Mrs. Peterson and Kali were very quiet. Each of these two had a lot to think about. First, it was frustrating being locked up. Second, they were very shocked at the sudden turn of events. The rebel woman did seem harsh and grudgeful. It was scary even to try and guess what she had in plan for them all. And lastly, Mrs. Peterson now felt the intensity of her errors. A child had died and it was in deed her fault.
Mrs. Peterson tried dismissing such thoughts, well, they are all not real anyway. But still, her conscious weighed heavier than her grudge for the game. It was amazing how, in the past, she did what she felt she needed to do without second thoughts, but now she was
