The Academy had been getting busier for weeks, slowly enough that no single day showed it. Another notice on the boards, another society's table in the corridor, another assignment due before the last one came back. Elara felt it in her own timetable, which had no gaps left that she had not put there herself.
Selphine seemed to feel it most. Her timetable had grown a second page, and she turned up in more places than one person should fit into a day, always with a pen in hand and always on her way to whatever came next.
They were halfway down the Block's main corridor when she let out a long breath through her nose.
"This is so annoying."
She was reading the page rather than walking, and Aurelian steered her around a pillar without looking up from his own.
"Which part?" Elara asked.
