She finds her mother and learns that Kartik is a member of the Rakshana. This time she crosses over to the realms.
While on a school outing to see a spiritualist, Gemma has another vision. The girls read from Mary Dowd’s diary and learn more about the realms and the magical powers Mary and her friend Sarah carried with them when they returned. Pippa, Felicity’s best friend, joins them as well. Gemma agrees only if her roommate, a poor scholarship student named Ann, can come along, too. Felicity convinces Gemma to go to the caves at midnight to start their own Order. She tells the girls legends about The Order, a group of women who had magical powers and could cross to another world known as “the realms.” Gemma believes this is the world Mary Dowd wrote about in her diary. The following afternoon, Miss Moore, the art teacher, takes her students to a cave to see some primitive drawings. Gemma promises to keep the tale of Felicity’s affair a secret, and the girls become friends. On her way back to school, Gemma comes upon Felicity embracing a young gypsy man. Mary confesses that soon after her 16th birthday, she went willingly into a vision instead of fighting against it, and she walked through a beautiful door of light to another world.
She is thrilled to learn that Mary and her best friend, Sarah, also had visions. Gemma takes the diary back to the school.ĭuring free time the following day, Gemma takes the diary outside to read. Gemma is compelled to follow her and is led to a cave where she finds the diary of a former Spence student named Mary Dowd. When Gemma gets outside, the vision of a little girl appears. Gemma escapes the chapel - with the Reverend Waite’s whiskey instead of the wine. He also tells Gemma that he and others will be watching to make sure she obeys. Kartik warns Gemma to resist any future visions to avoid more danger. He insists Gemma tell him what she’s seen, and she admits the details of her mother’s death, including the fact that the same shadow creature that tried to take her mother consumed Kartik’s brother. The boy’s name is Kartik, and he knows of Gemma’s visions. He and his brother had warned Gemma’s mother that someone named Circe was near. While trying to find a way out, Gemma is confronted by a young man she met in India. When she reluctantly agrees, Felicity and her friends lock Gemma inside. Gemma must go into the chapel and steal the communion wine. Their ringleader, Felicity, convinces Gemma to go through an initiation in order to be considered worthy of their favor. Gemma, however, knows from a vision that her mother committed suicide rather than be taken by a dark creature that came out of the shadows.Ī group of socially elite girls rule Spence. Gemma is instructed to tell her classmates that her mother died of cholera. After her mother dies, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle travels from India to England to live at the Spence School for young ladies.
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