_Author's POV_
Celeste was at the gate when she stopped one final time.
She turned around and looked back at the garden where everyone was still standing in the particular stunned silence of people who had just watched something happen that they hadn't believed was possible until it did.
Her eyes found Elvira.
Elvira was still staring at the ground, one hand pressed to her cheek, her earlier confidence completely gone. She looked smaller than she had an hour ago. That happened sometimes when the architecture a person had built their personality on got knocked down quickly.
"Elvira," Celeste said.
Elvira looked up slowly.
"You're enrolling in the Ashthorne Royal School," Celeste said. "I'll have the paperwork sent to this address within the week."
Elvira blinked. "
