Fake it with me
Mia, from the second row, said, very quietly, "He wasn't wrong."
"Reset," Ava said.
They reset.
She ran the transition three more times.
On the fourth she made a minor adjustment to the entry angle of the back formation, a small shift, unannounced, that had nothing to do with anything Mason had said, and the transition ran clean.
Mia said nothing.
Sofia said nothing.
Ava kept her face exactly where it was.
After practice she found Noah in the corridor outside the gym, waiting with his practice bag over his shoulder and the particular patience of someone who had been there long enough to have settled into it.