People changed overnight.
Not completely... just enough to make you question whether they had always been like this and you'd only just started paying attention. They smiled too quickly. Moved aside too easily. Conversations died the second I walked into a room, then somehow resumed the moment I left. Even professors looked at me differently now. Not warmly. Not coldly. Carefully.
Like I had become something fragile.
Or dangerous.
Daphne noticed before I did.
Actually... scratch that.
Daphne noticed before I admitted it.
"You see it now?" she asked as we crossed the courtyard after our afternoon lecture.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
She snorted.
"Aria."
"I'm serious."
"No, you're lying."
I sighed.
"Fine."
"There it is."
She hooked her arm through mine, steering
