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Chapter Fifty-one: When Ashes Whisper

Author: Evelyn Hart
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-05 20:33:55

The corridor outside the Headmaster’s office was lined with shadows. Cold, silent, unmoving. Seraphina’s boots thudded quietly against the marble floor, her heart drumming louder than her footsteps. She hadn’t meant to overhear the meeting. She hadn’t even known Lucan was inside.

But now she couldn’t un-hear the words.

“She’s destabilizing,” Headmaster Vellum had said. “If her dreams continue to merge with reality, she becomes a threat. Not just to herself—”

“Then let me help her,” Lucan had interrupted, voice tight with desperation. “You don’t understand what she carries.”

“She’s not the only one who carries something dangerous.”

Now, her hand hovered near the heavy wood of the door, her fingers trembling. She hadn’t known he was fighting for her behind closed doors. Hadn’t realized how much they feared her.

“Seraphina.”

She spun.

Lucan stood in the shadows at the end of the corridor. His dark coat shifted with the draft, eyes unreadable.

“I didn’t know you were listening,” he said s
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