Zaine watched the two walk by before considering it safe to get going. Alexis and dimitri were going to be undoubtedly late, so that meant pretty much everyone else was in class already. Which meant no one would see him ascending. He had denied himself the outing yesterday, but today he was dying to get even the littlest bit of fresh air, just for a minute. A very small minute that surely, surely, no one would notice him absent. He strode towards the door and, checking behind him, quietly slipped into the stairwell.
( XD)