SELENE
There was a guy at breakfast I had never seen before. Elara was talking to him like they already knew each other, which was weird because Elara did not just sit with random people.
She was too careful about who she was seen with. But there he was, sitting across from her, and she kept smiling at him in that soft way she did when she wanted someone to think she was harmless.
Something about him made me uncomfortable. I could not put my finger on why exactly, he looked normal enough.
The kind of person you would pass on the street and forget about two seconds later. But the way he was watching Elara while she talked felt off, like he was not actually listening to what she was saying so much as collecting information about it.
Mara noticed me staring. "What is your problem?" she
