I begin my life at Valtherion Academy. I struggles to fit in among the other prodigious students, but my overwhelming display of power has already marked me as an outlier. Whispers spread through the Academy, admiration, jealousy, and fear. I learn that my dorm has a sinister history, connected to forgotten students who vanished without explanation. This becomes the first taste of the Academy's darker secrets. I receive my dorm key and I'm escorted by Lyra and Roley. We chat as we walk towards my dorm. We arrive at an ancient, nearly abandoned-looking dorm building. Tension builds as I enter alone, strange whispers and shadows haunting the corridors. I find my room, scarred with markings older than the Academy itself. I say in my mind. What the actual fuck is this? I look around. I sigh and say. Perfect. just perfect.
I hear strange sounds from the walls. I sigh and leave the dorm. Its currently night as i walk through the halls. I knock softly at Lyra and Roley door.
As they open there in a nightgown, i blush and say.
"Hey... May i talk to you guys for a second?" I say still blushing.
They look at each other then close the door in my face. I am left alone in the dorm room. I walk back to my room and make myself at home. I organize, clean, and fix the electricity. I feel a small victory in my chest. I say in my head. HA! Take this old man. I bet you didn't think this would happen, huh?
I then walk close to my bed and lay in it. I close my eyes trying to fall asleep. I fall asleep. But a dark dream pulls me into visions of the past. Wars, broken kingdoms, and a woman who resembles my mother, pleading for me to resist "the curse." I wakes shaken. Sweaty, heart racing, and trembling. But stronger. The Academy bells summon me to the first orientation.
I wake up sleepless, i couldn't sleep all night. I look in the corner and see her. My mother. I Shake my head and she vanishes. I sigh and say. A trauma response.
I get up lazily. brush my teeth lazily and get ready for the day about to be brutal.
I enter the grand lecture hall filled with hundreds of students. Whispers follow me. Some challenge me, trying to belittle me for being "a nobody." I endures until his hidden power nearly lashes out. Lyra and Roley intervene. I look at them happy to see them.
"Hey!" I say excitedly. "How was your sleep?"
They look at me and smile. Roley says.
"Hey... we slept good. How did you sleep? They say with a smile on they're faces.
I look at they're good mood and decide to hide what happened. I force smiled and say
"I slept good too... cannot complain at all."