The room was filled with ten teenagers—students of Asterea Academy.
Today was resumption.
Unlike the others in the academy, they hadn't taken the entrance exams. For many of them, this was their first time setting foot here at all. That alone made them different. A special class, as they'd been labeled.
And with that title came expectation.
If they were special, then their professor had to be something more.
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At the right side of the room, four students had already formed a small circle—the more social ones, it seemed. Two boys, two girls. The conversation drifted in the easy, speculative rhythm of people who had just met and were trying to figure out who was worth talking to.
