I attempted to empty my expression, but that was something Dawn should've done. Not Headmistress Millington - or Wilva, I guess - while speaking to a man she obviously knew.

I smiled, the feeling foreign on this new face that had very thin lips. "Sorry, I must've had my head in the clouds again." 

He looked at me quizzically for a beat too long, one that spiked my hackles into alarm. Had I said or done something wrong? Probably. I hadn't studied the headmistress as ...