Ravin's POV
I saw her coming before she reached my seat.
Lyris moved through the classroom with that same unhurried confidence she carried everywhere, and when she got to where I was sitting she leaned down close to my ear, low enough that nobody around us could catch it.
"Can I have a moment with you somewhere quiet, just the two of us?"
"I don't think that's a good idea."
"Please," and something in her voice dropped, the ease going out of it completely, "it's urgent, I need to tell you something and I genuinely can't say it here where anyone could hear."
I held her gaze for a moment, reading her the way I read everyone, looking for what was sitting underneath the surface of the ask.
She didn't look like she was manufacturing urgency to create a reason to be near me.
There was
