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🪷 LYRA 🪷
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Lyra stood near the bottom of the stairs with Sienna beside her, both of them frozen in place as students crowded around the path leading to the fence.
The bodies had been laid out in no pattern at all, just scattered near the iron fence like they had been thrown there carelessly.
There was blood smeared across the stones leading to the fence. Scratch marks on the ground, and torn pieces of clothing caught in the metal bars.
It looked less like an attack and more like something had played with them.
Then staff members began rushing in. Teachers, dorm matrons, security guards.
"Back inside!"
"Everyone return to your rooms immediately!"
"Move!" The panic in their voices only made things worse.
Lyra could hear the sobs from behind her. Some screaming names, trying to identify the dead.
A teacher stepped in front of the bodies like that could somehow erase what everyone had already seen.
"Lyra," Sienna muttered, still pulling at her hand. "Come on."
