HAZEL
The room erupted.
Sentinels poured in like water through a broken dam. Delta was there first, her face twisted in false horror, and she grabbed the bedsheet off Milo's bed and threw it over me. The fabric was warm and smelled like him and I clutched it to my chest while I kept screaming.
"What happened?" someone shouted.
"Goddess, what did he do?"
"Get away from her!"
Hands grabbed me. Pulled me toward the door. I caught a glimpse of Milo's face over someone's shoulder. His eyes were wide. Shocked. He was saying something but I couldn't hear it over all the noise.
Then someone hit him.
The sound was sharp. Wet. Milo went down hard and the sentinels swarmed him like wolves on wounded prey. Fists flew. Boots connected with ribs. I heard him shouting that he was innocent but his voice got drowned out by all the angry voices calling him monster and scum and worse things I would definitely be repeating.
