Michelle walked with Alexander to the dorm building.
There, she told him to leave and go back to his courtyard.
It was a girls' dorm building, so even if Michelle wanted to cause a scandal, it wouldn't be by bringing a man into the dormitories in the morning, when some students were still sleeping.
She wanted scandal, not an outbreak of rage.
Before Alexander left, he gave Michelle one thing, because she asked for it.
It was the body‑tempering cube into whose space Michelle got pulled.
It was already in pieces since Alexander had broken it.
Michelle put the pieces away into a pocket in the inside of her sleeve before going to her room.
She wanted to do one last thing before resuming her academy activities.
Specifically, it was to get back to the training Mavreth gave her.
Before she had left his sect, Michelle promised Mavreth she would take some poison every day, but she somehow ended up not doing it.
She forgot about it with all the things that were going on.
