Elara's POVLyris was talking to Leo.I noticed it on the walk to school, catching a glimpse of the two of them ahead of us near the entrance, Leo doing that thing he did where he leaned slightly forward when something interested him, Lyris talking with that easy confidence she carried everywhere she went like it was just part of how she was built. They looked like they had been talking for a while, comfortable, not the stilted conversation of two people who had just met but something already moving past that stage, already finding a rhythm."What do you think that's about?" Freya said, following my gaze."No idea," I said, which was true, and also the thing I told myself every time I noticed Lyris in a situation I didn't fully understand, which was becoming a regular habit at this point."She works fast," Freya said, more observation than judgment."Leo makes it easy," Nyx said simply, and we kept walking toward the entrance without making a thing of it.Classes moved the way they m
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