Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
Something massive crashed through the hedge below, and I dropped the last six feet, rolling, coming up with my back to the stone wall.
The hound was enormous.
Not an Academy breed. Not anymore. Its fur had gone patchy, falling away in clumps to reveal skin that glowed with corrupted moonlight - the silver-green of lunar poison, the kind that turned loyal beasts into weapons. Foam dripped from jaws that could crush a femur. Its eyes, once the warm brown of trained animals, were now void-black, reflecting nothing, hungry for anything that moved.
Between me and the hound, a first-year girl had frozen.
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