Finding Courage

Cleo

Piper sets her tray down onto the hard plastic table, the sound snapping me out of my lingering thoughts. I slide into the booth opposite her, carefully placing my own plate of steaming food between us. We have retreated to the furthest, most secluded corner of the bustling college cafeteria. The dull roar of human students gossiping, laughing, and scraping their silverware against cheap pla