Matt and Zoe kept searching through the rooms on the grounds where the one Sebastian and Viola had been given was located, but even after going through every single one, there was no sign of her anywhere.
When they opened the last door and found it empty, everyone still down in the hall celebrating, Zoe's shoulders dropped. Little sobs began leaving her throat before she could stop them, and she quickly covered her face with her palms and turned her back to Matt, unable to hold herself together and not wanting him to see it.
This was what she had always feared most. The unexpected attack on a Luna's life that happened so often in their world. She had carried that fear for her friend quietly at the back of her mind from the very beginning, and now here it was.
