THE VAMPIRE AND WEREWOLF PRINCESS: AETHON ACADEMY

Iris' pov~ The woman waiting for me outside the principal's office is not what I expect. I come out of that door ready to be difficult with whoever is on the other side because that is the energy I have decided to carry through this entire experience. However, she smiles at me like she means it and that throws off my whole plan.She is tall with warm brown eyes and neat locs pinned back from her face. She is holding a clipboard and wearing a lanyard that says STAFF. She introduces herself as Miss Odera, the principal's secretary, and she tells me she will be showing me around before getting me settled. "I also want to say," she adds, and her voice drops just slightly, "that I know this was not how you planned your Tuesday. The way you were brought here was not easy and I am sorry for that, even if I cannot change it." I look at her. My silver eye is doing its quiet reading of her and she actually means it. There is no performance in her, no script she is following to make me

Iris' pov~ Caelum leaves before I even finish getting dressed and honestly good for him because I was planning to ask him so many questions over breakfast and now he has successfully avoided that. Ren is still in the room when I come out of the bathroom, sitting at his desk with a book open. He looks up when I emerge. "Your first class is in the East Wing, third corridor, room twelve." I stare at him. "How do you know my schedule?" "You left your timetable on the desk," he says and goes back to his book. I look at the desk. There is indeed a timetable sitting there, delivered at some point this morning by someone who slipped it under the door without knocking. I pick it up, look at it, look at Ren, and decide to let it go for now because I have bigger problems. I thank him and he nods without looking up and I head out into the corridor as if I know exactly where the East Wing is.I absolutely do not know where the East Wing is. It takes me fifteen minutes an