Selene’s pov
I leaned deeper into my seat as I stared at the wall.
There wasn’t even anything great about it. Just plain wood.
“You look like you fought a bear,” Sara laughed, placing a cup of water in front of me.
My chuckle was frail as I grasped the glass with my fingers. “Believe me,” I sighed after swallowing some of the cold liquid, “I think I have.”
Sara tilted her head. “You’re learning.”
“Learning? I don’t think you heard me. I just got roasted, toasted, for like an hour straight. Every answer I gave was the wrong one.”
“Not wrong,” she corrected softly. “Just… different.”
“Different,” I repeated, my voice flat. “You mean human.”
She didn’t want to agree with me but she sighed while sitting across from me.
“It’s true,” she said finally. “You think like a human because t
