"They have left the academy," Yue's voice cut through the charged silence with a weight that made everyone present instinctively tense.
For a brief moment, no one spoke. The meaning of her statement hung in the air, and everyone needed time to truly absorb what she had just said.
Then Lord Ravenclaw reacted, his composure cracked in an inelegant way.
"How is that possible?" he questioned in a strained voice. "Leila said she would wait for me."
The way he spoke made it sound less like confusion and more like a personal betrayal, as though he had been deliberately misled.
Klaus, who had been standing beside him the entire time, let out a slow, tired sigh and placed a steady hand on Ravenclaw's shoulder.
"I think," Klaus said evenly, "that she sensed your lies and tricked you the same way you were trying to trick her. The only real difference is that her tricks worked, while yours didn't."
