The dining hall smelled like burnt toast and overcooked eggs, which was about standard for academy breakfast.
Aegis shoveled scrambled eggs into her mouth while Sophie and Lune bickered across from her.
"I'm just saying," Sophie insisted, leaning forward with her elbows on the table, "you could have at least knocked before walking in."
"It's my room," Lune replied, tone flat as always. She cut her toast into perfect squares. "You're the one who decided to fornicate there."
"Fornicate?" Sophie snorted. "Who even talks like that?"
"People with vocabulary."
Aegis tuned them out, focusing on her eggs. Scarlett sat beside her, demolishing a plate stacked high enough to feed three people. The redhead had the metabolism of a furnace.
Liora picked at her fruit salad, eyes drifting across the hall.
Aegis followed her gaze.
