Until Noon

TALIA POV

Nobody would look at me.

That was the first thing.

I came downstairs in white — the senior maid had laid it out, simple, clean — and every person I passed found something else to look at. The wall. The floor. The window. Anywhere but me.

"What's the grave for?" I asked the first maid I found.

She looked at her hands. "I'm sorry my lady I have to—" And she was gone.

I asked a guard.

He st