The name missing from roll call was Petra Wynn.

Alpha support trainee. Umbra house. Second year. I didn't know her well, quiet girl, kept to herself most of the time, the kind of student who survived by not drawing attention.

The kind the academy was supposedly designed to nurture and protect. And now, no one knows what happened to her.

Soren read the official announcement with the same tone he used for everything. Measured and final with no room for argument.

"Petra Wynn has submitted a ...