Arwen's POV
I don't run from the greenhouse immediately.
I walk. Slowly, deliberately, like someone who has made a considered decision and is moving toward something rather than away from it. I walk until I am through the greenhouse door and across the side grounds and through the academy's main side entrance, and then I am in the corridor and the corridor is empty and I keep walking until the walking becomes something faster.
I don't run from the school. There is nowhere to run to. No pack, no Margaret, no home that still looks the way it did before my eighteenth birthday turned everything over. Running away is not an option so it is not the option I take.
I run from the feeling.
Up the east staircase and then the next one and the one after that. Up past the fourth floor where the se
