"So what? Are you just gonna stand there and say nothing?" Gail's voice cut through the thick, weighted silence like a blade.
Levi flinched slightly. Maybe in another universe, he could've avoided this moment. But not here. Not after what happened in that classroom.
In an unfortunate twist of fate—or perhaps something far more deliberate—Professor Redbourne had dismissed everyone early. Some apprentices had collapsed from the crushing force of Levi's magic, their mana drained or destabilized by the pressure. The atmosphere had been too heavy, too dangerous to continue.
As a matter of fact, Levi had been called into the professors' office to ask him what he knew about his gravity magic, but Gail asked Professor Redbourne to talk to her first which she unfortunately agreed to.
So here they were. Alone.