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Chapter 61 Esmeralda

By the time flight class ended, my shoulders ached.Not from the drills.From the stares.I folded my wings back carefully as the rest of the class dispersed across the training field.The whispers had been quieter while the headmaster was there.But the moment he dismissed us they returned.“Did you see them?”“They’re too big.”“That’s not normal.”I kept my head down as I walked toward the lifts.The muscles along my back still buzzed faintly from the impact when my sister had slammed into me.I knew it hadn’t been an accident.But the headmaster had handled it.That had to count for something.By the time I reached my dorm room, exhaustion had settled into my bones.I closed the door behind me and leaned against it for a moment.Quiet.Finally.My eyes drifted toward the small chest beside my bed.After a moment I crossed the room and lifted the lid.My mother’s grimoire rested on top of the journals.I pulled one free and settled onto the rug in my small meditation corner.The fa

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Chapter 62 Esmeralda

The tension from the hallway followed me all the way to the locker room.The moment I pushed the door open, the conversation inside dipped.Not completely silent.Just quieter.The kind of quiet that meant people had been talking about you.I stepped inside and moved toward the locker where I’d left my bag earlier that week.A pair of angel girls stood near the lockers across from me.Their voices dropped into whispers the moment I entered.“…that’s her.”“I told you.”“Those wings are wrong.”I kept my back to them as I pulled my hair into a tighter braid.A third girl snorted softly.“Maybe she’s not even an angel.”“Maybe her mother—”The sentence cut off when the locker room door opened again.More girls entered, and the conversation shifted.But the looks didn’t stop.They followed me all the way back out into the arena.I ignored them.Or at least I tried to.The arena floor was already filling with students when I stepped out. The familiar scent of leather mats and dust hung in

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Chapter 63 Atlas

By the time we reached the defense arena, the last class of the day was just wrapping up.Which meant two things.One: the training floor would be open soon.And two: the locker room hallway was about to get interesting.Calyx grinned beside me as a group of third-year girls walked past us toward the locker room doors giggling.“Well,” he said lightly, “the academy definitely improved over the summer.”Malachi snorted.“You say that every year.”“Because every year it’s true.”Zeke walked ahead of us, rolling his shoulders like he was already preparing for training.“Try not to embarrass yourselves,” he said dryly.Calyx spread his hands.“I’m just appreciating the scenery.”We leaned against the wall outside the arena floor while the last of the class filtered out.A few of the girls pretended not to notice us.Most didn’t bother pretending.I flashed one of them a lazy grin when she glanced over.She blushed immediately and hurried after her friends.“Predictable,” Calyx muttered.B

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Chapter 64. Esmeralda

The rumors changed.That was the first thing I noticed during the week after the fight.Before, the whispers had all been the same.Powerless.Worthless.The Raven girl with no magic.Now the stories were different.Apparently I had been kicked out of my coven because I practiced dark magic.Some versions said forbidden magic.Others said blood magic.One particularly creative student claimed my wings had turned black because I had cursed myself.I had to admit, their imagination was impressive.As I walked through the academic courtyard one morning, I overheard two angels talking just ahead of me.“My cousin heard her coven burned her mark off because she was practicing shadow magic.”“No way.”“Yeah. That’s why her wings went black.”I almost laughed.At least they weren’t calling me non-magical anymore.Progress, I supposed.Of course, the rumors didn’t stop the smaller things.Feet still slid out into the hallway when I walked past, hoping I’d trip.Someone “accidentally” slammed

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Chapter 65 Atlas

Lunch at Rosewood was always loud.Plates clattered, benches scraped, and a hundred conversations bounced off the high vaulted ceiling of the hall. Most students clustered by rank and species—angels with angels, mages with mages, demons with demons.Our table ignored that rule.Mostly because we didn't allow anyone to sit near us.By the time I walked over with my food, the guys were already there.Malachi sat at the end of the table, working through a plate of meat and bread like the kitchen might close if he slowed down.Calyx lounged beside him, spinning a fork between his fingers while scanning the room like he was looking for entertainment.Zeke—Zeke wasn’t eating.He was staring across the hall.I dropped into the empty seat beside him.“What are you staring at?”He didn’t answer right away.Just nodded slightly toward the far side of the hall.“The little dark-haired one,” he said.“The one who sits alone.”I followed his gaze.A girl sat near the back tables, dark hair braide

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Chapter 66 Esmeralda

The harvest festival had always been my favorite time of year.Even when things were bad.Even when the coven still treated me like something they’d scraped off the bottom of their shoe.There was just something about fall solstice that felt… warm.Alive.Rosewood gave us a short break for it every year. Four days instead of the normal two. Many students went home, but a lot stayed, especially those whose families lived too far away to travel for such a short holiday.Thornridge made the most of it.The town square transformed overnight into a massive fair—lanterns strung between buildings, colorful stalls lining the streets, music drifting through the crisp autumn air.The academy even sponsored events. Most of the supernatural groups ran their own booths—angel archery contests, fae illusion games, shifter strength competitions.Normally I only helped Mel with the preparation.Drying herbs.Packaging teas.Sorting out the bundles of lavender, rosemary, and moonmint.But this year had

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Chapter 67 Atlas

The festival was exactly the kind of chaos I liked.Music.Food.Too many people packed into narrow streets.Lanterns hanging everywhere, casting golden light across the town square.Shifters were already dominating the strength games near the center of the square while a group of fae had set up some illusion booth that had a line halfway down the street.Calyx was trying to convince Zeke to let him cheat at one of the gambling tables.Malachi was eating something that looked like it had once been an entire turkey leg.And I was mostly just enjoying the night.“Relax, Zeke,” Calyx said, tossing a coin between his fingers. “It’s a festival.”“You’re still cheating,” Zeke replied flatly.“It’s only cheating if you get caught.”“That is not how that works.”Malachi snorted quietly.I leaned against a wooden post nearby, scanning the crowd lazily.Students from Rosewood were everywhere tonight.Without uniforms it was harder to tell who was who, but you could usually figure it out by the

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Chapter 68 Esmeralda

The blacksmith stall smelled like smoke and iron.I loved it immediately.Heavy tables were covered with tools, horseshoes, nails, and rough chunks of raw ore that glinted under the hanging lanterns. A few finished blades sat further down the display, their polished surfaces reflecting the warm festival lights.Bjorn wasn’t there tonight.Instead, a broad older shifter worked the stall, carefully weighing small chunks of ore for another customer.I hovered near the end of the table, studying the raw metals laid out on a cloth.They felt… different.Alive in a strange way.When I picked up one of the pieces, a small shard of iron ore, a faint vibration hummed through my fingers.It wasn’t strong.Just a whisper.But it made my heart skip.The teacher in metallurgy had talked about it.Some people felt metal differently.Especially raw metal.Before it had been shaped.Before it had been forced into a form.A true forge master could read the metal.Understand what it wanted to become.M

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Chapter 69 Atlas

I didn’t hear what they said.I was too far away.But I saw enough.The angel guy—tall, golden hair, same type Zeke came from—had walked up to Esme at the blacksmith stall like he owned the air around him.I leaned against a nearby wooden post, arms folded loosely across my chest while the festival crowd flowed between us.At first it just looked like an argument.Then I noticed the metal.The chunk of ore in her hand shifted.Just slightly.Then two more pieces on the table rattled against the wood.Interesting.The guy noticed too.His reaction wasn’t subtle.Even from across the square I could see the disgust twist across his face before he knocked the metal out of her hand.Then he stormed off into the crowd like a self-righteous idiot.Esme apologized to the stall worker.Bought the ore anyway.Then disappeared into the festival crowd.I pushed away from the post slowly.Very interesting.When I got back to the guys, Calyx was flirting with a pair of fae girls while Malachi finis

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Chapter 70 Esmeralda

Life at Rosewood settled into a rhythm.Not an easy one.But a rhythm all the same.Classes.Whispers.Training.Study.Repeat.The whispers never really stopped. If anything, they changed.At first the rumors had been about my wings.Then about my coven.Now they were about my magic.Apparently I was dangerous.I almost laughed the first time I heard that.But I understood why they thought it.Metallurgy class had quickly become my best subject.Not just good.Exceptional.The metals responded to me faster than they did to anyone else in class.Especially the raw materials.When the instructor brought out unrefined ore, I could feel it immediately—like a quiet pulse beneath my skin.The first time it happened, the entire tray of iron pieces slid across the table toward me.No one said anything at first.Then the whispers started.“Did you see that?”“She barely moved.”“That’s not normal.”I kept my head down.Focused.If they were afraid of me now… good.Fear was easier to live with

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