Elowen's POV
My feet wouldn't move.
The front desk attendant was still there, the lift doors were still open, Caelan was still standing two feet to my left, but everything had the quality of a held breath and I couldn't make my mouth form a single word.
"Don't scare the girl." A woman's voice cut through it, clear and crisp and carrying the kind of authority that didn't need to be raised. "Let's clarify the situation first."
I already knew that voice. It took me a second to place the face, and then I did, and my stomach dropped. Corinna, standing at Kael's side in a pale coat with her dark hair pinned up, her posture as composed as it had been at the gathering, her eyes moving between me and Caelan with the measured calm of someone who made assessments for a living.
Kael didn't look a
