Kalina held his eyes for maybe three seconds. Eren didn't count the seconds because he was too busy noticing how she had stopped breathing through her nose.
Rosa moved first. She slid half a step closer to Eren and pressed the side of her shoulder against his upper arm. Her fingers were white on the strap of her leather bag.
"Don't tell her anything," she said under her breath in Elvish. "She's bluffing."
"I know."
"I mean it Eren. She has nothing and we don't owe her anything." She really meant that and Eren knew it. They both hated her for too long.
"I know." But he was used to at least listen her and some things wouldn't change so quickly.
He squeezed her wrist once on the way past and took a full step forward so that he was between Kalina and Rosa. The movement was small. Her eyes followed his shoulder as it moved into her line of sight and she pulled her chin up half a centimeter.
