Violet's POV
The end of the semester loomed like a storm cloud over Imperial High, thick with anticipation and dread. Final exams weren't just a requirement—they were a rite of passage. For the first time since stepping onto this cursed island, we were tested not with weapons, survival drills, or psychological warfare, but with pens, paper, and the weight of expectation.
It was just Math. Science. English. History.
Simple. Ordinary. Academic.
And yet somehow, it felt harder than every blood-soaked challenge we had faced in combat training.
I stood in the hallway outside the exam room, my uniform collar suffocatingly tight, the material suddenly too stiff on my skin. Around me, students paced like caged predators, all of us trapped in the same uncertain waiting game. The air was satura
