The break was over. The cabin the chaos, the constant tension she spent, all seem to fade as she stood at the academy gates, going to her room. Students hurried through the courtyard, laughter echoing across the marble hallways. To everyone else, they are back, back to gossip about how they spent their break, what they learnt, who they got mated to during the ceremony.

To Ivy, it was another battlefield.

In her dorm room mirror, she carefully peeled off the freckles she had drawn on to dull ...