Ashwyck Academy for the Damned
The sconces on the walls were lit, but the flames burned blue, casting everything in a funeral glow.
“You’re aware of the academy’s purpose, I presume?”
“To educate and domesticate society’s charming little nightmares?”
Another almost-smile.
“We refine the raw potential of the gifted. Train those with bloodlines steeped in magic, curse, or darkness to control their natures.”
“So I’m a tourist.”
“No,” she said, glancing at me sidelong. “You’re an anomaly. And I do not abide mysteries without answers.”
We passed beneath a vaulted archway, and I realized the walls were whispering. Not in a metaphorical way. Actual whispering. In a language I didn’t know but instinctively distrusted.
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