Chapter 245 – Who Sit With Who
In front of everyone, Cassius sat calmly beside Theophane, the two of them holding smiles that made onlookers shiver for reasons unknown to them.
There was a tension in the air, one that slowly filled the whole classroom, plunging it into a coldness completely different from the usual kind.
Something was clearly happening, but the lack of knowledge of what gnawed uneasily at their guts.
And yet, before they even got used to that tension, another added to it as Emrys Stormblessed pushed his chair back and stood up.
Love de Bayard looked at him with puzzled, confused eyes, clearly asking where in the hell he was going.
He let out a smile, low and eager, and whispered to her, yet it was loud enough for all of them to hear.
"I'll sit next to Meadow today. I have something to talk to her about." He lifted his hand and tapped her shoulder in an attempt to reassure her. The effect was the complete opposite. "Let's meet at the end of class."
