Lyris POV
The moment the dorm door closed behind me, the calm I kept at the dinner table dissolved completely.
I dropped my bag onto the bed and stood in the middle of the room, pressing both hands flat against my thighs, trying to slow everything down.
The other girls in Stormrider were still filtering back from dinner, voices drifting through the corridor, footsteps passing the door, and I needed all of it to sound normal right now. I needed to feel like everything was still under control.
It wasn't.
Ravin had seen the mark.
I had watched his face the moment his eyes landed on it and I knew, the way you always knew with someone like him, that there was no version of that moment where he didn't understand exactly what he was looking at. He covered it well.
The compliment, the eas
