Chapter 112

Lyra noticed it.

At first, it didn’t register as anything wrong. But then she realized something was off.

Silas wasn’t there.

Lyra paused with her locker half open, fingers still wrapped around the strap of her bag. She glanced left. Then right. Her pulse did a strange little hiccup, like it had tripped over something invisible.

He was not at his usual spot leaning against a wall. He was standing