Elara's POV
Ravin's seat in second period was empty and I glanced at the door twice before Professor Aldric called the class to attention and I made myself look forward and stay there.
He had been at school every single day since he transferred, present and on time without exception, and one empty seat on one morning was not something worth reading into. People missed class it happened it did not mean anything.
By the second day I was less convinced.
I walked into class and looked at his seat before I looked at anything else and found it empty again, and something low in my chest registered it before my mind had caught up, a quiet displacement I could not immediately name.
I sat down and opened my notebook and told myself he had probably gone back to wherever he came from for a few
