Lahat ng Kabanata ng Beneath the Gilded Rule : Kabanata 11

Briarcrest did not wake the next morning as the same institution.There was no official announcement. No proclamation of reform or condemnation of rebellion. The academy simply… hesitated. Systems lagged. Schedules misaligned. Authority fractured into overlapping directives that contradicted one another in subtle, dangerous ways.Nyx felt it the moment she stepped into the corridor.Eyes didn’t slide away anymore. They lingered. Measured her not with fear, but with calculation. Some students nodded. Others stiffened. A few looked at her with something like resentment, and she had forced a choice they’d hoped to avoid.The enemy had multiplied.Her tablet chimed with three summons before noon.She ignored them all.Instead, she went to class.The lecture hall buzzed with tension, students seated farther apart than usual, alliances no longer assumed. The professor began the session, and stopped when Nyx entered.For a heartbeat, no one spoke.Then the lecture resumed, strained and britt