Clementine:
I kept watching her face, and she kept staring back at me. Then I remembered.
She had told me her sister had died because of the Academy, and it all hit me at once.
My expressions must have shown her that I remembered because Miss Rue began to nod her head.
"Exactly," she whispered, keeping her eyes locked on my face.
"You killed my sister!" she screamed.
I gasped, stepping back and away from the metal gate.
My hands opened and closed beside my body, trying to release the tension, but it did not help.
"She was innocent. She was dragged into this Academy just like the rest of you. But you," she paused, taking such heavy breaths that I could hear the wheezing in her breathing. Then she pointed at me. "You are the reason she died."
I stared at her in disbelief. All this time, I had been worried about the monsters.
I never thought someone in the Academy had been waiting for my fall. I never thought the danger would come from her.
