The cosy chatter immediately died down as I stepped into the classroom. My first lesson after the bunker situation was Nature Of Human Souls and it didn’t look like I’d been missed.
“Ylva, how nice of you to finally join us,” Professor Hagen quipped. “You’re behind but I don’t have time to catch you up. Figure it out or get out.”
Wow. What a warm welcome.
I lingered on the threshold, very uncertain all of a sudden. If I hadn’t felt like the outcast before, I definitely did now. These people had been my classmates for months now and I barely knew their names. I’d never made an effort at getting to know them better and they hadn’t either.
From across the room, I locked eyes with someone I did know. Astrid.
Her face was still black and blue from the bruises she sustained after the colla
