POV: Otto Moorland

The acceptance letter from Moonrise Academy felt like paper lightning in Otto's hands as he read it for the fifteenth time in his family's cramped kitchen. Needs-based scholarship. Full tuition coverage. Academic merit award for exceptional achievement in supernatural studies.

Everything he'd dreamed of, and everything that terrified him.

"Still can't believe it's real?" His mother Rebecca looked up from the breakfast dishes, her smile proud but tinged with worry. At ...