Madeline

“I think… I think Evie smiles when she doesn’t want to. I think she does it all the time.” And there it was—that was it. The reason Becky could barely stand the woman: she was in a constant state of fulfilling the needs of others, and it reminded Becky just a smidge too much of a person she no longer knew.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“One by one across the vast room, women stepped forward out of the crowd, discarding shirts, hats, or dresses to reveal their Malevolent Guard uniform beneath. They’d been there all along, hidden behind the misplaced idea that women did not need to be watched so closely, that they couldn’t be any sort of true risk.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain