MasukSeraphina’s PovI walked slowly for my next class, nervous about seeing Vale again after our last conversation, and worse, after my little outbursts of energy which he had taken most of his time to teach me to keep them under control. I am sure these past few days would make him want to stop teaching me all at once.I took a seat at the far back, away from his peering eyes, and beside a girl that never even spoke, her hair were made into white chunky braids that fell over her face, concealing her face from the rest of us. Her hair was a huge contrast between her very dark skin.“Hey,” I muttered nervously, trying to break the awkward tension, but all I got was a raise of her head, like I was annoying the hell out of her. I created
Seraphina’s PovNoxshade academy no longer felt like a safe place. Ever since I had sent foot into this school, this very hall. It had been from one disaster to another. Chaos seemed to follow me like a bad spell. Maybe that was my fate.Whispers followed me across the hallways, and not long after a new name followed through – several new names followed through.“What’s up Freak,” a voice called bitterly down the hallway, their eyes burning with so much resentment.“Hey Morvath's incarnate,” another voice spat, behind me.Even days after the thunder and the golden surge. the imbalance of my power rippled outward. I broke the windows at the reservatory days ago after a student had implied I was unhinged. I conjured several mystics at spell class. I had even conjured a voidhollow in class, and one time, I had set a fellow classmate's hair on fire. All not on purpose of course, but the students thought differently Causing several students to whisper when I walked past. So I didn’t even
Seraphina’s Pov It had been days since the hallway incident. Yet the hallway still felt like – felt like whatever that was still lingered in the corners and corridors of the hallway, calling out to unsuspecting strangers. The weight lingered over the academy. The air felt thick, felt suffocating like something unseen was holding its breath, waiting patiently before it unleashed chaos once again.I had locked myself in the dorm, Lucian was always in and out, not necessarily giving me all the answers I had needed. Classes were held off for a few days, so I just sat in the dorm trying to come up with ways to exit this freaking magic school.I pushed everything aside, trying my possible best to focus on today’s classes, on studying, on surviving… but I could feel it in my veins – I could feel the way the air held each secret with bated breaths, waiting patiently to strike again. The mark on my chest pulsed faintly at first, a dull heat I could almost ignore. I clutched at it faintly, mu
Seraphina’s PovI still couldn’t catch my breath. How could I after everything that had unfurled today, the incident at the combat field, the chaos at the hallway, all seemed to drown meEven after hiding in the empty hallway for a while, the pulse in my chest — the burn mark — refused to fade. My fingers hovered over it as if just touching it would ignite flames beneath my skin. I had slipped away, trying to follow the whisper, but every time I felt like I was this close, it always danced out of reach, far away from me, taunting till I could no longer hear it.Everything was happening too fast.Two attacks in a single day. Shadows that moved on their own. Symbols
Seraphina’s PovThe academy felt… all shades of wrong. Every shadow seemed deeper than it should be. Every hallway stretched longer, every sound sharper, more intense. My heartbeat hammered in my chest like a warning bell. I could barely focus on anything except the faint, persistent pulse beneath my shirt — the burn mark that throbbed in rhythm with my fear. The class had been dismissed a little bit earlier, and we were all walking to the dorm. The headmaster had called a distress meeting earlier, dismissing us to our dorms for the day.Kael hadn’t left my side entirely, but he had stopped getting too close. He hovered just out of reach, shadows twitching unnaturally at his feet. I knew why — the last time his shadows surged, they almost swallowed everything in their path. I understood that he was trying to protect me, but being near him felt like walking a tightrope over fire.Lucian stayed close too, constantly scanning, calculating. His face was grim, his jaw tight, as if he carr
Seraphina’s PovNightmares plagued me, every single time I closed my eyes, I was greeted by several shadows. Many men who looked like the one I had killed spilled out from the shadows. Their around them pulled me in, sulking me into their world of torture and heartache.Kael had left me in my new dorm. He didn’t even speak a word to me after that, although I could see that he wasn’t exactly pleased that I was sharing a room with Lucian. He kept whatever thought he had to himself. And Auren? He seemed to have disappeared back into his usual shadows, protecting me from afar.I was this close to telling Kael about the death note from the Royal Shadow. But after that incident in the hall, I wasn’t sure how he was going to take it, plus I already killed someone or maybe even two, and I wasn’t willing to tell him. I couldn’t risk seeing the disappointment in his eyes. And no one – no one except Lucian and I was supposed to know that, it was our little secret.Speaking of him, I hadn’t even







