*Arwen's POV* I find an empty classroom on the second floor and lock the door and Kai Ashford sits across from me and puts his travel bag on the floor between his feet and looks at me like someone who has been preparing for this conversation for a long time. Draven is outside. I know because I can feel the weight of his presence through the door the way you feel weather changing before it arrives. He didn't follow us in. Whatever he saw in my face when I turned around in the courtyard told him to wait, and the fact that he listened is something I'll think about later when I have space for it. Right now I have Kai. "Talk," I say. He nods. No performance, no warm-up. He talks. "Selene Hunter is alive. She has been alive this whole time, living outside registered supernatural territory,

