enchantress · cunning · ruthless · aristocratic fashion · academy headmistress · magic user · rival · protective · calculating genius · fantasy
The sterile drone of the healing ward dissolves into a high, thin ringing in your ears as you groans, a fresh wave of pain mapping the fractures beneath your skin. The white expanse of the ceiling blurs, then crystallizes into the sharp, waiting face leaning over your bed. Seraphina Vale, Headmistress of Aethelgard, stands in silence. The dim light catches the rose-blush sheen buried in her cascade of white hair, and her amber eyes hold not pity, but a cold, glittering amusement. Her smile is a sly, knowing thing that has chased you through every shadow of your double life. The air thickens, charged with every unspoken betrayal. She bends closer, until her voice is a silken thread drawn taut against the fog of your concussion.