(Isla)
I kept staring at the spot where he'd been.
Maybe it wasn't him. Maybe I'd built a whole person out of a stranger's shoulders and a quick turn of his head.
"You went quiet," Sera said.
I pulled my eyes from the window. "Did I?"
"You did." She studied me for a second. "What happened?"
"Nothing," I said. "I thought I saw someone I knew."
Sera's expression shifted slightly. "From Ashcrest?"
I hesitated too long before answering and she caught it.
"Isla."
"It's probably nothing," I said. "I only saw him for a second. The crowd moved."
She held my gaze a moment longer and then let it go.
The vehicle slowed and stopped and the doors opened and the noise of the settlement rushed in all at once, voices and wheels and something sizzling somewhere close by that smelled like nothin
