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Zoned out, I pricked my fork in the piece of tomato and moved it around on my plate.
"Not hungry?" Aellyn asked as she sat down next to me.
"Not really," I admitted. The past weeks had been all kinds of stressful and it wasn't aiding my appetite.
"What's been going on with you?" the Elf asked. "You haven't really been around."
"Oh, I've... I've been busy. Lots of meditating to find my inner wings," I half-lied. While Flavia gathered everything necessary for a guided trip to the Veil, she'd been helping me with the ancient mantras.
"Ahaa, makes sense. But we should do something fun sometime."
I nodded as I stared through the rows of seated students at Ryoko's back. Our last argument had driven a deep wedge in our friendship and reduced her to the same, reserved girl I met at the b
