After what she had done with the water and after Miss Lara's warning about keeping it hidden, Viola was deeply unsettled. Whatever had happened to Ivy had something to do with it, she could feel it. And it also had something to do with that water creature that had dragged her into the river. Could something like that have taken Ivy the same way?
The thoughts swirled through her mind in endless circles through the night as she sat at the bedside keeping a close watch on Sebastian, checking the progress of his healing every few minutes. It was moving so slowly she could barely tell it was happening at all.
His face looked calmer at least, more like a person sleeping than a person dying, but she knew he would remain in that suspended state until his body had finished what it was doing and healed completely.
