The cafeteria felt like an entirely different place.
Where once invisible walls separated nobles from the lower class, today those divisions have crumbled. Everyone sat together, and while the nobles looked a bit uncomfortable, they were were casually trying to strike conversation like nothing had happened.
It was surreal stepping into that with my roommates at my side. Laughter and chatter rang across the space where silence and tension had once ruled.
I spotted Lilith immediately and waited for her usual taunts, but she only clenched her jaw and slinked out of the room. The sight of her retreating with her tail between her legs made me grin like a lunatic.
When I finally turned back to my friends, I noticed the stares, the whispers.
Students I’d barely spoken to before greeted me,
