She found them without meaning to. Or rather, they found her, because Derek was already outside Room 14 when Lily came around the corner, and the three people standing with him turned in unison at her approach, the way wolves always did, instinct older than manners, older than courtesy, older than the thin social agreement that said pretend you didn't hear her coming from forty feet away. Lily slowed her pace without stopping. Derek saw her first. His eyes moved to her once, briefly, the way you checked a door you'd already locked, confirmed, noted, moving on. Then he turned back to the group and said something low that she couldn't catch, and she understood that this was the introduction happening right now, before she'd even reached them, in whatever he was saying about her in the four seconds before she arrived. She hated that. She filed it away. "Lily." He said her name the way he said most things—without inflection, without performance, just the word, landing where it ne
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