It was bad enough for Relena before Daddy Darlian was killed - now the whispers that follow her every move are three times as loud. And yet, even knowing that every single person in the room is talking about her and looking at her, she doesn’t flinch. Her head is up and her eyes are on her target; she is the very picture of keeping your cool under fire. It’s like when she had to face the reporters outside of her home, only this time, it’s people that she has known and have known her forever. They already have judged her to be a rich spoiled princess (not realizing how true an epithet that was), so what about now? Do they sympathize with her? Or do they think she’s gotten what was coming to her? I’m sure there are both kinds in this crowd, especially because I’m 99% sure that some of these students are the children of Daddy Darlian’s political enemies - maybe even children of those who arranged the assassination. And Relena is smart enough to have probably figured that out. It’s probably why she is keeping her eyes forward: there’s the possibility that she’ll make eye contact with someone whose father or mother very likely played a part in her father’s murder, and all that emotion that she is keeping under tight control will get loose. It’s all very Elsa-ish. “Conceal, don’t feel.”