Mattheo Riddle meets Elise Howarth, and neither of them are ever the same again. It starts simple, help in class, roaming the halls together, falling so very slowly yet so very fast that they both hit the ground before they even realize they've fallen. The realization that they might be more than acquaintances, the feeling that this is more than a friendship, is too much to bear behind the mind of the son of a deadly man, but just enough to bear behind the mind of the daughter of a lively woman.