Ravin's POV
She was already waiting by the oak when I arrived, and that surprised me slightly, not that she was there but that she had beaten me to it, standing with her arms loosely crossed and her eyes on the treeline beyond the garden fence like she had been thinking about something and had not quite finished yet.
She turned when she heard my footsteps with an expression I had already learned to read as her thinking face, the one where something was sitting just behind her eyes waiting to come out.
I sat on the bench. She did not sit immediately.
"You disappear every evening," she said.
Not a greeting. Not a warmup. Straight to it, which was very Elara and which I had started to find more interesting than I probably should have.
"I do," I said.
"Every single day since you trans
