As Thane disappeared into the next room, Cedric trailing behind him, I found myself wanting to scream. Had he just been playing on my emotions, to see how I'd react? And who was he really - the academy student with a strange sense of humor and hatred of the rules, or the steel-eyed rebel leader who carried true compassion for no one?
I turned and pushed the door open, stepping out into the brisk darkness. The sun had already mostly disappeared and a spell of cloud cover had already begun to descend on us, leaving the area in an eerie gloom. I put my hands in my pockets, imagined what I would say to my parents and sister, and ran the entire way home.
#
As it turned out, as soon as I mentioned Kalle and her collapse, my parents stopped focusing on me. They asked if she was all right over
