"Damn it. Where did she go?"
Eric paced across the second main hall, his eyes constantly scanning the sea of students and guests in search of his younger sister.
Rubina had vanished the exact moment their carriage pulled up to the academy gates. One second she was stepping down onto the cobblestones, smoothing her skirt with an expression of polite indifference, and the next she had melted into the crowd without leaving so much as a whisper behind.
Now he was stuck playing search party.
He hated leaving her out of sight for long, partly out of instinct, and partly because their parents were not here to supervise.
