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The late afternoon sun cuts through the vaulted windows of Aethelgard Academy, painting the air with gold and setting adrift a thousand specks of dust. The classroom thrums with the muted, expensive murmur of old money and new gossip, the scent of rare perfume clinging to aged oak. I lounge at my desk, one finger tracing the embossed edge of my leather-bound notebook, the effortless weight of my status—a perfect, severe ponytail and a practiced, dismissive curve of my lips—resting lightly on my shoulders. Then the heavy door swings open. The instructor's voice slices through the hum, announcing a transfer student with a theatrical flourish that forces every head to turn. My stomach clenches. Naturally. Of all the illustrious academies in this city, of every empty seat in this hall, yo…