Elara's POV
I had been thinking about the look on Ravin's face all morning, the one from yesterday when he had been standing across the courtyard watching Kael talk to me, calm and unreadable on the surface but with something underneath it
I had not been able to name and had not been able to stop turning over since. I had told myself it meant nothing, then told myself it probably meant something, then told myself I was reading into things, and by the time I sat down at the lunch table I had gone around that loop enough times that I was genuinely tired of my own thoughts and had decided firmly to stop thinking about it.
I lasted about four minutes.
I was reaching for my water when he appeared.
Not at the edge of the table the way Kael usually did, giving a moment of warning before com
