#Chapter 63: Help in Unlikely Places

Celeste

The campus garden was a strange setting for confrontation. Birds chirped, a gentle breeze swayed the blossoms, and the world seemed far too peaceful for the tension that buzzed in the air.

I sat on a bench, Fiona at my side, when Sabrina, with her predatory grace, began to close in on us.

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