FREDERICK
I could tell my friends were up to something. I had known them for too long to miss the signs: all those little glances and getting quiet the moment I walked into the room, all those meetings without me. Among them all, Odrin was the weakest link. Every time he lied, he touched the knight's badge on his chest. And lately, he was doing it a lot when he saw me, meaning he had to lie to me a lot.
They knew something I didn't, and I started to suspect that it was connected to Annika. That would be the only thing they wouldn't tell me, and for a good reason.
Annika… That wasn't even her real name. Her real name was Ada, but I
refused to call her that. Ada was a murderer. Ada didn't care about anyone. Ada was ready to kill a child, and she was one of the ones behind my friends' be
