The common room at the ninth hour.
Vane had gone to the roof after dinner. Ashe had watched him go up the stairs and had looked at Nyx across the table. Nyx had looked back. Neither said anything about it.
Kaito had set down his cup and told Denro there was a building in the eastern quarter with unusual foundation stonework — pre-consolidation, possibly older — that was worth seeing at night when the mana-lamps hit the lower facing at the right angle. Denro had immediately become interested. Mara had decided it was worth investigating. The three of them had left inside four minutes, and Ashe had watched Kaito do this without pointing at it or naming it, which was how Kaito did most things.
Now it was Nyx and Ashe.
