Kael
Following Nadia that night was more than stupid – it was paranoid. And creepy, Kael admitted to himself guiltily as he slipped out of his dorm room. He’d heard Nadia leave her room next door a few hours after sunset, not long after she’d received a courier message of some kind. By the time he stepped out of his dorm, she was already turning the corner at the end of the hall.
He followed after her. In his mind, he spun up a dozen excuses: she was so upset earlier. Something is clearly wrong. I’ve never seen her cry like that, not even when I – when I did what I did. Maybe somebody’s threatening her? Maybe she’s in some kind of danger?
Nadia had insisted on keeping a wall between them, after the harm Kael had done. She was even going to change rooms in the morning, just to get fu
