Summoned To The Study

By the time the sun faded into a bruised, golden dusk, the relentless heat of the day began to lift. Evie and Jenna dropped their bristled scrub brushes into the soapy buckets. They trudged into the staff lounge, their uniforms clinging to their backs, their skin coated in a thin, sticky layer of sweat and grime. Every muscle in Evie’s shoulders burned with a deep, persistent ache from scrubbing t