Arwen's POV
I find Cole in the training corridor at eleven at night.
Not by accident. I wait until the dormitory settles into the slow breathing of a building full of sleeping people, until Elena's lamp goes dark and the hallway outside our room stops carrying the sounds of students returning from late study sessions. Then I get up, dress quietly, and go looking for him with the list of eleven questions folded in my pocket like a warrant.
Cole runs a lap of the training corridor every night before bed. I know this because he told me on day four. He said it like an invitation “you should join sometime, it helps with the transition of a new place” and I filed it away the way I file everything as information, not just conversation.
He's on his third lap when I step out of the shadow near
