SELENE
NEXT DAY
Calder was waiting for me outside the infirmary, he stood a few feet from the door with his arms crossed and his back against the wall, looking like someone who had been there for a while and hadn't decided yet how he felt about that, his eyes found me the moment I stepped out and he pushed off the wall and straightened up.
"Can we talk?" he asked.
It wasn't a demand. I looked at him for a moment. "Where?"
"Somewhere quiet, the east courtyard is empty this time of day."
I considered telling him I was tired, which was true. I considered telling him my shoulder hurt, which was also true.
But something in the way he was standing stopped me. Shoulders not quite as rigid as usual, he looked like a man carrying something he was finally tired of holding alone.
"Fine," I s
