Talia's POV
A girl named Erica Nowdell was the first to discover the body.
The grounds upon which Blackridge Academy stood covered an area as large as twenty-five acres, and a lot of this was unused and filled with trees and shrubs and tall grass that covered every little inch of sand in the area.
Classes were in session when someone came screaming into the hallway, yelling and forcing everyone to run out, and when Zephyron-he knew how to be a proper hero in those days before he and Lyra Soren were a thing, so it was little doubt that Aurelia fell for him then-held her, spent a good deal of five minutes trying to calm her jumpy nerves and aggressive wolf-she had an incredibly strong wolf, too-and managed to get a single word out of her. By then, everyone was watching them.
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