Riot Rules (Crooked Sinners)

by Callie Hart

Mercy Jacobi, star of the theater department. Star of two note-worthy Broadway shows, too. Also, Wren Jacobi’s twin sister. In all good stories, one twin is good, the other dark. One good, the other bad. Two sides of the same coin. Mirrored reflections of each other. Not so with Wren and Mercy Jacobi. They’re both bad. Like, really, really bad. And once you’re on one of their shit-lists, congratulations, you’ve just made it onto the other’s by default. I’ve done my best to steer clear of Wren since day one at Wolf Hall. It’s been harder to avoid Mercy, though. We were in the same dorm together, freshman year. And now our rooms are both on the third floor of the girls’ wing in the main house, I get to listen to her gripe about the lack of hot water in the bathrooms every morning. I keep my mouth shut, though. I keep out of her way, because the girl is a nasty piece of work.