SELENE
I woke up to an empty room. Elara's side of the room was neat, the bed was made like she had never been there at all.
I sat up and looked at the space where she had been sleeping, she had left before I woke up. I did not know how to feel about that.
I got dressed and headed down to breakfast, the cafeteria was loud and busy like always. Students moving through the food line, trays clattering, like nothing had changed, like a man had not been found dead in a hallway two nights ago.
But things had changed. I could see it in the small details, the way conversations stopped when teachers walked past, the way people kept glancing toward the administrative wing like they expected something to happen.
Mara was already at our table, she had two cups of coffee in front of her and she p
