The twins happily came to school the next day, practically humming with excitement. Their steps were springy, and for once, they didn’t arrive with the aura of two walking natural disasters—they arrived glowing, fresh, ready to attach themselves to their honey-sweet beta. It only took ten minutes for their world to collapse. They stomped straight to Li Han’s class during break, practically bursting through the doorway, expecting him to be buried under a pile of textbooks or complaining about noise. But the seat was empty. No cardigan draped over the chair, no stack of notebooks, no Li Han. That was normal, they told themselves. He hated noise . So the library it was. Except the library was silent and empty except for the librarian, who sat knitting something horrifically pink. No Li

