SELENE
HOURS LATER
The confrontation between Calder and Kael stayed fresh in my mind all day. Classes came and went, conversations moved around me.
But no matter what I tried to focus on, I kept coming back to the same image. Calder's eyes. The anger in them that had looked less like jealousy and more like something coming apart at the seams.
The rivalry between them was growing too fast and moving in a direction I didn't like. I couldn't keep watching it build without saying something.
So when the sky finally turned dark and the campus quieted down for the evening, I went looking for Kael.
I found him near the edge of the training grounds, sitting alone on a low stone wall with his elbows resting on his knees.
He looked deep in thought, shoulders slightly hunched, eyes somewhere
