Ember Academy
"From the moment word reached the capital that the old fire had returned. Did you truly think a hundred years of careful silence would simply let you walk in through the front gate unnoticed?"
Sera didn't answer that. She didn't have an answer that wouldn't give away more than she wanted to.
"House Corvane could sponsor you," Cassia went on, voice smooth, unhurried, laying each word down like she was building something brick by brick. "Formally. Your training, your protection, even your family, safe and comfortable, wherever they are, whatever they might need, for as long as they need it." She let that settle a moment, let Sera feel the exact shape of what was being offered. "All I would ask