Elara's POV
We were still behind the arts building when I asked him, the corridor quiet around us and the afternoon settling into that particular stillness that came after the last class of the day when most students had already cleared out and left the space to whoever was still in it.
I had been carrying the question since the shelter, turning it over in the way you turned over things you wanted to ask but had not yet found the right moment for, and standing here now with him close and the rest of the school nowhere near us I decided the right moment was probably not going to announce itself and I should just ask.
"Why did you stop?" I looked up at him.
At the shelter i know you wanted to keep going and I wanted to keep going and you stopped anyway i want to understand why.
He look
