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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