Chapter 37 The Threat Escalates

• "I didn't need to hear the words to know danger was coming."
• By morning, the poison had already spread through the Academy's corridors like plague through a besieged city.
• I felt it the moment I stepped from my dormitory chamber-the weight of whispers sharpened into daggers, the careful way conversations died when I passed, the sideways glances that followed me like hunting hounds. Gideon hadn't wasted a single hour of darkness.