Trial of Flame
She continued, "We'll also begin discussing the Trials. Your first year challenge is the Trial of Fire. It is painful. Brutal. You will suffer. Some will be broken. Some will burn. But those who survive? Will rise forged."
She paused. "If you survive."
Silence. Then, gasps. A muffled sob. A girl up front visibly shaking.
"Wait... people die?" someone whispered.
"Oh, yes," Galina purred, her smile razor sharp. "Roughly forty percent of first years perish."
The room erupted into murmurs and panicked breathing. Aster's hand flew to her mouth, eyes swimming with tears.
I didn't flinch. Didn't blink.
"If I survived my family," I muttered, "a little fire won't kill me."
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