Chapter One_The Maid They Called a Student

Neris POV I arrive at Alpha Academy before sunrise with two suitcases. Only one of them is mine.Mine is plain and scuffed, the zipper half broken from years of being dragged across floors. Ysolde's is cream leather with gold clasps, and heavy enough that my shoulders are already burning."Don't drop that." She doesn't look back. "And hurry up. I'm not being late on my first day."I shift the weight and keep walking.The path to the main gates climbs steep and long, lined with black stone that still holds the cold of night. My arms have gone numb above the elbow. I tell myself what I've told myself for twelve years. This is temporary. Four years here, and I'll finally have a life that belongs to me.Ysolde walks ahead like the road was laid for her personally. Dark hair smooth, uniform crisp, hands empty."You're too slow," she calls."I'm right behind you.""Then don't be."The gates open the moment she reaches them. Two guards incline their heads to her. Their eyes pass over me the

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Chapter Two_The Girl Everyone Loves to Hate

Neris POV "She mostly carries my things."Ysolde pitches it across the courtyard so every first-year hears. The laugh that comes back is quick and easy, the kind that finds me no matter how small I make myself.I keep my face still. Hands loose. Shoulders down, the way I've practiced for years so nobody sees the heat climbing my neck.I tell myself what I've been telling myself since yesterday morning. I imagined the smile. Someone like him doesn't notice someone like me.Then I go back to what I'm good at. Disappearing.Orientation starts before the sun clears the towers. They herd us into the main hall in ranked lines while an instructor with silver at his temples reads the rules like a list of ways to fail. Strength rankings post Monday at dawn. Combat three days a week, mandatory. Wolf evaluations on the full moon, and anyone who can't shift on command drops three ranks automatically. Political rivalries are "discouraged but expected." He says the last part with a thin smile that

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Chapter Three_A Secret That Refuses to Stay Buried

Neris POV One of my shoes is on the wrong side of the bed. I stop in the doorway with my heart already climbing. The left one sits exactly where I left it. The right has moved three inches, toe angled toward the window, set down the way you set something after you've looked underneath it. Nothing else seems touched. My suitcase is closed. The blanket is folded the way I folded it. The cracked mirror over the sink gives me back the same tired face. But the shoe is wrong, and the room smells faintly of someone who isn't me. I step in and shut the door without letting the latch click. The suitcase is still locked. The drawer under the bed still holds the only two things I own that matter, my mother's pendant and the acceptance letter I never showed anyone. The windowsill is clean. No scuffs on the floor. Nothing taken. Someone was looking. I stand in the middle of the room and make my breathing slow down. Under my skin the wolf turns over, restless, as though it can smell the int

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Chapter Four_The Hunt Begins

Neris POV The flare is gone.I know it the second my hand goes into the side pocket and closes on nothing. No cylinder. No safety pin. Just the rough seam where it should be sitting.Night has already come down. The Pursuit has started. All around me first-year teams fold into the tree line in fours, voices low, flashlight beams cutting short and white through the dark. Laughter drifts back from somewhere left of me. Someone tells their partner to keep up. A girl at the supply table is still arguing for a second water flask.I'm standing at the edge of the western forest by myself. Ysolde is nowhere.I turn a slow circle. Check the ground. Check the pack again. Check inside my jacket, then the dirt at my feet, as though a metal cylinder could have quietly buried itself. It was in that pocket after the final equipment check this afternoon. Somebody took it, and somebody knew exactly which minute I'd stop paying attention."Looking for this?"I spin. One of the boys who has been circli

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Chapter Five_Run or Reveal

Neris POV Run.It's the only thought I have left. So I run.Branches open thin, stinging lines across my face and arms that I barely feel. Roots grab at my boots. The ground is uneven and wet, and every stride feels like the one that finally puts me down.Behind me the creature moves with terrible purpose. Heavy, fast, and far too quiet for something that size. It isn't crashing through the undergrowth the way an animal would. It's choosing its line, cutting angles, closing the gap like it already knows where I'll be standing in four seconds.It isn't hunting the forest. It's hunting me.I look back once and nearly lose my footing. The glowing eyes are closer than they were half a minute ago. One armored shoulder scrapes a trunk hard enough to strip the bark away in a long pale scar, and it doesn't slow down for that either. It doesn't roar again. It just comes."Keep moving," I tell myself through my teeth. "Just keep moving."My lungs are burning. My legs have stopped asking permis

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All Chapters of The Girl the Alpha Academy Couldn't Break: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Chapter One_The Maid They Called a Student

Chapter Two_The Girl Everyone Loves to Hate

Chapter Three_A Secret That Refuses to Stay Buried

Chapter Four_The Hunt Begins

Chapter Five_Run or Reveal