SERAPHINA
“Eliminate your competition?” I echoed, my brows furrowing in confusion.
But all of us Alphas were each other’s competition. Every single one.
Alpha Gideon’s voice rolled through the forest, steady and commanding. “The Alpha instructors have placed a page bearing each of your names at a location corresponding to your current position. Your task is to find your page. Once you do, you automatically qualify for the next trial and are permitted to return to the Academy building immediately.”
He finished, his words deliberate, his tone final.
I stood frozen, dumbfounded.
That was it? We just had to find our page? Nothing more?
“The task begins now!” Alpha Gideon thundered.
At once, the forest exhaled. Life rushed back into it, the rustle of leaves, the calls of distant creatur
