But aside from my birthday, I hadn’t seen her once over the summer. Even though I knew she was being kept somewhere in the manor and I’d searched every fucking brick in the place, used every spell possible to try and reveal the concealment. But there was nothing. The only clues I had gotten at all were the times I’d woken in the night, certain I’d heard her screaming, calling for me, begging me to find her. But once I was awake, there was never anything but silence again.
