I left the empty classroom and started walking. No real destination in mind. Just needed to move instead of staring at quest timers that kept counting down like a bomb nobody else could see.
Building B was mostly admin offices and conference rooms. Quiet. The kind of quiet that felt expensive, like the silence itself cost money to maintain. My footsteps echoed off polished floors that probably got cleaned three times a day by people who made more than most provisional heroes.
I turned a corner near the stairwell and walked straight into someone carrying a stack of papers.
Papers went everywhere. Floated down like defeated surrender flags.
"Shit. My bad."
Aurora Fitzgerald sat on the floor surrounded by what looked like committee reports. Her dark hair had those gold highlights catching the overhead lights. Green eyes looked up at me, startled.
"I'm so sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going and—"
"You're apologizing for me walking into you?"
