Raine POV
Dawn broke cold and pale over Moonstone Academy, spilling thin light across the courtyard. The air smelled of damp stone and fear. Mist swirled low around our boots, curling like ghostly fingers across the ground as we all stared at the nightmare above us a single rope stretched between two towers, thin and slick with dew.
One wrong move, and it was straight down to who-knows-where.
My stomach twisted just looking at it. I’d been scared before, but this? This was a whole new level of what the hell have I signed up for?
Dean Halden stood in front of us, his dark coat rippling with the wind. His face looked carved from stone. “As you all know,” he began, voice carrying across the courtyard, “I am Dean Halden, Head of Moonstone Academy. Last night, I told you what it takes to su
