Aisla (HEST #2)

Hide End Seek Trilogy #2

Aisla Helenus lives in a prostitution den. Not only is she deep in poverty, but she's also insignificant.

If this was a movie or a book, she wouldn't be the main character. She won't even be the villain since that role is important too. No. She would only be someone on the streets, one of the audience, a passerby, an extra. If she's lucky, she can be a side character.

Hindi rin importante sapagkat ayaw niya ng atensyon. Silent and shy, that's what she's made of. She's more at ease with her plants and animals than with the spotlight of a human's eyes.

But when she joined the Laurel's Circle as a sculptor, an institution for young artist: from musicians, to ballerinas, to painters---suddenly, she's part of this camaraderie, she attends theaters and watch figure skating, she finds herself in linen dresses, silk ribbons, fur coats, and diamonds for buttons; Suddenly she is drag into this four-people group of lifelong frienship.

And suddenly, this insignificant side character, a girl struggling to grieve over her mother and her past, seemingly feeble and unimportant, eventually discovers that she's the only one who holds the power to end it all.