#Chapter 75: Lying

Evelyn I felt lost as I stumbled out of the medical tent later that day and plunged into the surrounding city. Even within the short time I’d been gone, the city felt strange, like it had taken on a new, foreign feeling. It didn’t feel the same anymore. Where once the city had been a joyous escape from the palace, I now noticed that it pulsed with tension. It was in the way people looked over their shoulders, the way windows snapped closed when there were too many passersby on the street, and the way that the fear that a wrong turn could lead to someone disappearing hovered over everything like fog. I’m sure the paranoid citizens had heard the rumors about me being taken and held captive. On top of everything, there were mounting reports of Jesse taking to the city streets and slithering into some undisclosed location. He was clearly meeting with someone, but who? Regardless of this new, lingering discomfort, I found myself walking straight into the heart of the city to me