Dusk competed with Ren but he was fast enough to meet up before it showed up in the horizon.
The campus was quieter than usual. Most students had either returned to their dormitories or gathered in the courtyard cafés. The courtyard cafés were the best life in the evenings , the entire place was filled laughter and music spilled into the evening air. Students had a code name for it—Sea, they called it—and it was the best way to drift away from the reality they faced. The best place to make and break friendships, a place to try out new things, even the most embarrassing things and a place to be weird as much as you wanted to.
It was bustling even more that evening because it was the freshman year.
Ren ignored all of it. His mind was fixed on one thing.
The Great Chronicles of the Terimen.
If Susan wanted it badly enough to send him after it, then it had to be important. And the last thing he wanted to do was to let her down.
