Ember Academy
"Then say it."
Vell stepped closer, voice dropping to barely more than breath.
"The prophecy the Headmaster spoke aloud that first night was not the full prophecy. There is more to it, a second half, one House Corvane has kept buried for a thousand years, one they will do anything to make certain never reaches your ears." Her hand closed around Sera's wrist, urgent, tight. "Because if you ever learn the whole of it, Sera, you will understand exactly why they have spent every day since your arrival deciding whether it would be safer, and simpler, to have you quietly killed instead of trained."