CHAPTER 96

KATHERINE. Dean Bryman hadn’t been lying when she said the missing students had spoken to their parents. I found Lydia after breakfast and she called Chelsea’s parents who confirmed what the dean had said, and told us that Chelsea was currently at her cousin’s and she wouldn’t be back in Blackwood anytime soon because she was experiencing burnout. We’d called Chelsea next and her number didn’t go through, but we were no longer worried because her mom had sounded so happy over the phone, and her happiness was rather infectious. “Stop smiling to yourself and move, Katherine,” Theo ordered, snapping me out of my thoughts, and I gave him a salute before I proceeded to do what he told me to. I grabbed salt bombs from my fanny pack as I walked to the edge of the room which was opposite the edge Lenore was standing at. “Why am I the one setting it off?” Josie, who was standing in the middle of the room, asked as Hunter handed her the pulse primer which would give off a charge that would at