Elara's POV
We were halfway to lunch when it happened.
The five of us were moving through the main corridor in that loose, unhurried way we had developed over the past few weeks, Freya talking about something that had happened in her morning class.
Leo adding to it with the energy of someone who found everything at least forty percent more entertaining than it probably was, Nyx walking slightly apart from the group the way she sometimes did when she was thinking about something she hadn't decided to share yet.
I was beside Lyris, half listening to Freya, half thinking about whether I wanted the pasta or the salad at lunch, when the group of girls rounded the corner.
Lyris was just ahead of me when they stopped directly in front of her.
There were four of them, and the one at the fron
