KAIRA

I could recognize the voice before I even turned around, and that was the problem. Knowing whose voice it was gave me exactly zero ideas about what to do with my face, so I turned slowly and found a point somewhere around his collar to focus on instead.

Professor Zane was standing a few feet behind me and he was looking at the two of us with an expression I could not fully see in the dark, but if I was to go by the energy, it wasn’t warm.

Draven's hands were still resting at my waist, I became very aware of this but I didn't move away.

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