Elara's POV
I noticed it for the first time on Wednesday, and it was the kind of thing you only caught if you were already paying attention, which I told myself I was not, not really.
Ravin had been in class all morning, sitting in his usual spot with that settled unhurried energy he carried everywhere, and I had caught myself glancing over at him twice during second period for no reason I could explain.
But when last class ended and I came out into the corridor he was simply gone, not walking ahead of me, not near the common areas, not anywhere I could see, just completely absent from the school grounds like a switch had been flipped.
I stood in the corridor for a moment and then kept walking and told myself it probably meant nothing.
I mentioned it to Leo on the way to the dining ha
