Arwen's POV
The students who came running take one look at Draven's expression and find somewhere else to be.
That's how alpha authority works. No words, no gesture, just the specific kind of stillness that says this space is closed more clearly than any instruction could, and within forty seconds the doorway is empty and the sound of retreating footsteps fades until we are alone in the training room with six empty window frames and cold evening air coming through where glass used to be.
Ashcroft is gone. I don't know when she left. I think about three words written and swallowed and make myself stop thinking about it, because there is a more immediate situation standing six feet away from me with its jaw set and its eyes doing that thing where they shift between grey and amber dependin
