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After speaking with Hadeon, Mallory found Hattie in the maid's room inside the castle. Like Mallory, Hattie had little to call her own, with only a few spare belongings she had picked up in the last few days to survive.
"Lady Mallory, thank God you're here!" Hattie whispered urgently, quickly walking to the door and closing it behind her. "Have you been harmed?"
Mallory smiled at Hattie's concern and replied, "As you can see, I am doing fine, Hattie. There is nothing to worry about."
"But that man—he's the dead man we dug up that night, isn't he? He's walking and talking, and he just came and threatened me to come with him!" Hattie's eyes were wide with fear, as if she had seen a ghost. Until now, she had been holding herself together, but her composure broke now that they were alone. "I saw him k-kill those town guards with pebbles and thought he had sacrificed you."