บททั้งหมดของ Crestville Academy: The Weeping Star Elf : บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 5

Theron's pov"Step aside, Serena."My voice was quiet and that was how everyone knew I meant it.The shadowborn princess didn't move. Instead, she stood at the gates of Crestville with her arms crossed, her blue eyes gleaming like she had already won. "You don't give orders here, outcast," Serena said. "This is my territory. My gates. And that..." she flicked her gaze to the silver-haired girl beside me, "...is a dead elf walking."I felt Iris stiffen but she didn't speak. Smart girl."Three hundred years ago," I said, taking a step forward, "your grandmother knelt before my father. She begged for his shadows to protect her bloodline during the Shadow War. He agreed. In exchange, she swore a blood debt...Shadowmere would answer Ashveil's call, once and without question."Serena's smirk faltered."I am the last Ashveil." Another step. "And I am calling that debt. Now."The air between us grew cold. My shadows unfurled from my skin...not the thin wisps I usually showed, but the full, a

Theron's povThe alarm was still screaming when I found the body.I had been in the shadow library when the sound tore through the walls; that wretched, skull-splitting wail that meant only one thing. Death by violence. Inside the walls. No accident. No natural cause.Someone had been murdered.I ran.The corridors of Crestville were chaos. Students pressed against walls, their faces white, their hands over their ears. A group of wolf cubs huddled together, whimpering. A fae noble had collapsed, her glamour flickering like a dying candle. I pushed through them all, my shadows clearing a path.That's the power of the silencing alarm.The body was in the Crimson Tower.I should have known. The vampire quarters. The blood-red windows. The scene was a nightmare.A vampire boy...no more than seventeen, his face frozen in permanent terror, lay sprawled across the marble floor. His chest had been ripped open. Not cut. Ripped. Like something had reached inside him and pulled until he came ap