Attie had never been one to let people like Chancellor Verlice or narrow-minded professors have the final say. And, Iris was swiftly coming to learn, neither was she.
The magic still gathers, and the past is gilded; I see the beauty in what has been but only because I have tasted both sorrow and joy in equal measures.
But she wasn’t the only one watching their departure. Iris saw a man leaning against the wall a few paces back, hands shoved into his pockets and a smile cutting across his shadowed face. Mr. Kitt’s associate.