Elara's POVI noticed it for the first time on Wednesday, and it was the kind of thing you only caught if you were already paying attention, which I told myself I was not, not really.Ravin had been in class all morning, sitting in his usual spot with that settled unhurried energy he carried everywhere, and I had caught myself glancing over at him twice during second period for no reason I could explain.But when last class ended and I came out into the corridor he was simply gone, not walking ahead of me, not near the common areas, not anywhere I could see, just completely absent from the school grounds like a switch had been flipped.I stood in the corridor for a moment and then kept walking and told myself it probably meant nothing.I mentioned it to Leo on the way to the dining hall, keeping my voice casual like it was something I had only just thought of and not something I had been quietly turning over since the day before."He is always gone by evening," I said. "Both days this
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