SAMIEN'S POV I stood still watching my world crash before my very eyes. Everything I had worked so hard to achieve in the last three months had come crashing on me. Hot tears burned my cheeks, the words of the council's head replaying in me. This was the end for me. Not just the end. This was shame! Pain! Humiliation. “Long time no see, Samien!” Vesperus said sarcastically, disrupting my thoughts. I raised my head to her, my hands tightened into fists. She chuckled. “Who could have thought that you of all persons would have managed to sneak your way into the academy.” My eyes flickered, bile rising in my throat. “Get away from me!!” “Well, I must give it to you,” she added, pretending not to have heard it. “How you managed to steal your way in here and then rise to become so kn

