Chapter 13. His ominous calm.
When she finished with Alaric, Hope put the phone on her lap and looked out the bus window. One thought was bothering her. Clarke… He's changed… Still the same smile, the same character, the same ominous calm, but something had changed... Strange that she had noticed it… He is… They are…
"You haven't changed at all," he said, as if reading her mind.
The girl turned to him and looked into his swamp-colored eyes, and he smiled his usual smile and looked boldly into her blue eyes. But suddenly his eyes changed color to black, just for a second, and returned to their former bright swamp color. At the same time, the man did not change his face, he also looked into the girl's eyes and smiled.
"What is it?"
"What?"
"Your eyes..."
He stopped smiling and didn't seem to know what Hope was talking about.
"They… They suddenly turned black…"
"What are you talking about?"
"But it's all the same now, like before…"
"Like before?"
"Yes, they are green again…"
"Green?"
The girl turned to the window.
"Green," Clarke said, as if to himself.
The bus stopped at a familiar stop. Clarke and Hope got off the bus together.
"Where are you going?" Hope asked Clarke.
"I remembering that you have a Museum and a storehouse of magic items at your school?"
"So what?"
"Is the pendant there?"
"Clarkе, I don't know where this pendant is. You can't get anything out of me because I don't know where it is."
"Where's your boyfriend?"
"It's none of your business."
"It's my business, cause I need the pendant that his mother wore."
The girl stopped, turned to face the man, looked up into his eyes, and said:
"Well, we'll go together and look for this pendant in the Museum and in the school's archive. You'll find out that it's not there, and you'll get away from school… And from me, finally. Agreed?"
"Agreed."