Elias arrived on the nineteenth of March, in the rain, in a coat that cost more than Selena's year, and the first she knew about it was that Cassian was not in the library.
He was not in the library on the Tuesday. He was not in the library on the Wednesday. He was not in Faraday's seminar on the Thursday, and Priya said, "He's ill," and Tom said, "He's never ill," and Selena sat with her hands round a cup of coffee and found that her chest had gone tight in a way she did not like at all.