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Ridley made it to Friday afternoon without anything going wrong. She didn’t accidentally give away any secrets to Meera, Dad didn’t find out she and Archer were looking for elementals, and no one tried to kill her. All in all, a perfectly normal few days.
She sat at the kitchen table with a mathematics textbook open on her commpad as she diligently worked through her homework. Her world might have tilted on its axis recently and never quite realigned itself, but she still had a scholarship to maintain if she was hoping to make it through the rest of the year as if nothing had changed. At least, that’s what she was planning to tell Dad if he walked in and asked why she was working so hard on a Friday afternoon. But in the back of her mind, she was hoping she and Archer would be able to
