"Are you still hurt?"
Adelaide, sitting numbly in the rug in front of her teacher, picked up her face to glare at her. "I need to see her."
"Oh, yes you do." Ms. Powell gesturing kindly to where Brightfin stopped across the room, settled her gaze on her. "Adelaide is in no mood to learn today."
unedited.
hopefully, I will have more time by end of today, to run this chapter and the other two through rigorous editing.