Kai was quiet beside them. In the way he was quiet when something had arrived at a correct place and didn't need him to comment on it.
The dining hall around them had continued its evening dispersal, the space gradually emptying toward its post-dinner state. A few tables still occupied. The serving station staff beginning their end-of-service routines. The ambient noise level dropping to the specific register of a large room with fewer people in it.
The window showed full dark outside now, the academy grounds lit by the regular evening torches, the training hall windows visible in the middle distance with the warm light of the students who were in them.
"Reylan's homework," Seraphina said, after a moment.
"Yes," William said.
"I'll do it in the library. If you're going there."
"I'm going there."
