Usually when someone or something she's attached to makes a sudden disappearance, Callisto responds with rage. It's easy to miss: she responds to a lot of things with rage and often violence. Maybe this time it's because she knew Astraea wouldn't be staying. Maybe it's because Astraea isn't really someone or something else, or because she isn't being magically compelled to be attached to her in the week they've known each other.

She's awake when the hyena vanishes: there one moment curled at her feet, chin delicately resting on the toe of her boot because she knows Callisto won't bother to warn her before getting up to move. Then she glanced down the hallway and when she looked back, Astraea was gone.

The next morning Callisto is lingering late after the breakfast rush, taking her time chewing through the scraps on her tray. No one is sitting with her, of course, and her eyes aren't focused on anyone or anything around her.