"I'll go alone this time," Rosalind said, and immediately Verity's brows creased with concern.
"No, that's really dangerous," she objected at once, her tone firm.
"Yeah," Thalia agreed quickly, shaking her head in disapproval.
Rosalind exhaled softly as she looked between them, her expression heavy with worry. "But I don't want to implicate you both. Who knows what might happen? I don't want to drag you down into this if things go wrong."
Verity sighed, then stepped closer. "You must be forgetting you're meant to be confined to this place. If you're going to sneak out, you need someone watching your back."
Thalia nodded in agreement. "And you're not implicating us. If something bad happens, we face it together. We already agreed on this, there's no backing out now because of fear," she said, though beneath her steady voice was a flicker of anxiety she was trying hard to hide.
