ra'

im during s

e, head slightly angled toward the front of the class, pen moving across his notebook. But there was something about the way h

y and focuse

ice more before

o the table. "Have you seen

n look up. "The o

now what t

ked up. "He styles it pushed

ered by being referenced. "H

ot what I

ou asking?" Freya

nobody seems to know where he came from and he just sits t

ttractive, Elara." Fre

eing s

am

ts transferred into Draven occasionally. What bothered me was the way he moved through the school like someone who had already memorised it, like it was familiar territory he was

eat across from me. "Y

t have

ave a face. What

tudent something ab

found him immediately, and looked b

kno

erally just sitti

w that

d. "Your wolf is probably just picki

picked up my fork and

about it when Kael

hinking about what you said, about still getting used to your wolf. Training with someo

rous," I sai

behind his eyes was not entirely

hink ab

said "come find me later

r table lasted ab

ot thinking about t

migh

even look up

ad not shifted Kael did not look in your directi

kno

doesn't bo

e asked and I said I'd think ab

way she got when her point had la

*

s mid conversation with Nyx when I

the far wall, not looking at his food, not on his phone. Just sitting the

g at him again

m n

ing in the middle

s thi

ut h

se entirely," I sai

herever he was in every room I passed through, like my sense

to separate real instinct from background noise. Two days ago I had not ev

convinc

ng across the east corridor alon

ey

urn

weight than someone his age should have. He stood with the same stillness I had noticed in class, like he had nowh

ara." Not

I said c

s like this. "I transferred last week. I don't know many people here yet and you seem li

e version of this that matched every other person who h

d not

id. "I don't

lightly, the kind of almost smile that

garden on the east side of the school, near

I had fully de

onger than necessary befor

d watched him go and told myself

olutely i