The office door slammed open and Sophie came through it the way a wave comes through a sandcastle.
"She HAAATES me."
[And there goes my afternoon.]
Aegis did not look up from the ledger. She had a column of numbers that refused to add to what Evelyn said it should. Somewhere in this room was the 40 gold that would fix it. She was going to find it. She had been going to find it for an hour.
"Who hates you?"
"Lune." Sophie threw herself into the chair across the desk, then immediately got up, because sitting was apparently for people whose hearts weren't broken. "Lune hates me. At breakfast. I said good morning and she didn't even look at me. She just kept eating her toast and looking at her stupid little sketchbook."
"Sophie. Lune ignores everyone at breakfast. She ignored me at breakfast. She ignored Talia, and Talia is a princess."
