Elara's POV.
I noticed it before I wanted to admit I had noticed it.
Ravin and Lyris, smiling in class.
Not loudly, not in a way that demanded attention, just that quiet thing that happened between two people who had talked about something real and now had a shorthand with each other that nobody else was in on.
A glance that carried something, a small smile at nothing obvious. The kind of ease that didn't come from nowhere and didn't belong to strangers who had only known each other for a few days.
I hated it.
I caught it happening twice in one day and both times I turned back to whatever was in front of me and told myself it meant nothing, that I was being ridiculous, that Ravin had never given me a single reason to feel this way and I needed to calm down and stop reading into thin
