Semua Bab The Outcast Theory: Bab 41 - Bab 42

Her mother arrived at Valen Academy at two in the afternoon.She came by train from the city's north quarter where she'd been staying with Zara's aunt since the week after Zara had left for Crestmoor, because she hadn't been able to stay in the apartment alone with the specific quality of waiting that Zara's departure had produced. She texted from the station and Zara met her at the academy's main gate, and they stood looking at each other for a moment in the way of people who have been through the version of things that happens at a distance and are now required to be in the same physical space with it all.Her mother looked smaller than Zara remembered, which was not a physical fact but an emotional one the specific quality of a person who had been carrying something alone for three years and had the carrying in her posture and around her eyes and in the careful way she held herself, like someone who had learned that grief had a center of gravity and was managing their proximity to