Alison Rose’s Reviews > The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy > Status Update

No, she was not going to be eaten by giants at Dragomir Academy--instead she was going to be nibbled at by protocols, policies, and procedures; etiquette, decorum, and mores; not to mention the teachers, the headmaster, and all the other girls, all of whom seemed to suspect there was something very troubled about her indeed.

Is it worse to hurt because you know what's happening, or because you don't?

After Marya caught up with Anton and coaxed him back to his pen, after she fed him some more, and scratched his chin, and sat with him as long as she could, and even longer than that, she went back into her house, though every part of her wanted to run all the way to the Eastern Forest, and maybe get eaten by a bear.

[I'll join you, Marya.]