Elara's POV
Lunch with Ravin had become one of those things I looked forward to without admitting how much, that quiet pocket of the day where everything else stopped being loud for a little while and it was just us sitting together with food neither of us was really paying attention to because the conversation always ended up being more interesting than whatever was on the plate.
He had been back two days and already things felt normal again, that specific kind of normal that only existed when the right person was in the room, and I had been enjoying it enough that I hadn't pushed about anything pack related since he got back, just let him settle back in without making it into a thing.
He started talking about what had been keeping him, the meetings, the disputes, the general chaos of
