The nicest thing about graduation, Bea thinks, is that in the brief window after breakfast and before the flames burn through, most of the mals are migrating down to the graduation hall. So it's possible to let one's guard down slightly more than usual and not feel too bad about it. And if you go two to a room instead of separately to wait for the cleansing to finish... it's not like curfew's being enforced.
senior year woo
see-a-ghost
They can ask what Shinta and Dani's schedules are like at breakfast. Might be another clue.
love-meets-genocide
She puts her name on it and slips it in her desk with a very dramatic air of resignation.
love-meets-genocide
"Think breakfast will be soon?" she says, tuning out the freshmen who are making their own assignments.
love-meets-genocide
Luthien's stomach has its own timer and it says she's hungry, possibly enough to leave the classroom before they're supposed to.
love-meets-genocide
Then breakfast (or waiting awkwardly outside the cafeteria doors until breakfast) it is.
never-known-singing
They aren't too late for breakfast - but they also definitely missed the bell and need to rush, and were only barely rescued by the timer in Luthien's stomach.