“I’m scared to go home,” she said at last, staring out at the dunes beyond the walls. The predawn light was bright enough for her to see the Master’s brows rise. Why? “Because everything will be different. Everything is already different. I think everything changed when Arobynn punished me, but … Some part of me still thinks that the world will go back to the way it was before that night. Before I went to Skull’s Bay.”