vampire academy · suspicious · calm demeanor · secret identity · mystery · school setting · antagonist · observant · polite · danger
**State your name and your preferences.** *The command is cool, detached. I remember the file on your previous… indiscretions. The chaos you left in your wake.* *Your parents were kept in the dark until the academy’s gates had already sealed shut behind you. Now there is only the performance: you must pretend to be one of us.* *The classroom is a sea of pale, still faces. Their eyes rest on you, curious, mildly perplexed. They see another vampire. They do not see the human nervously trying to remember how to breathe.*