Rise of Venus

The fall

Venus' head snapped towards the direction his roommate's voice came from and he felt his eye twitch. The lantern that was still in his hands was quickly pulled closer to his chest and he could feel the heat radiating off of it. Almost thankful that he had lit it with his own fire, instead of the lighter. His roommate stared back at him with a judging look in his eye but didn't say anything as he moved and got under the light covers of his own bed, back facing him. Venus couldn't help but wonder if he had actually seen him light the lantern like he thought he had, if he did this was a very light reaction. New students who also happened to be Dragon shifters usually immediately had dorms on the upper floors where the favourite students go. Or the stronger and older students depending on how you wanted to look at it and how much status you had. This was the closest anyone had ever come to figuring out his identity, and given where he was he couldn't afford to have anyone know. He couldn't let people become suspicious eather, or they would start digging.

Dare he think it but Venus believed that he would have been able to make it in the school without being found out, whether that was until he was deemed too old to be a student or until he was kicked out he had not decided. But the second someone started trying to look into his past he was in danger, in even more if they somehow found any cracks in his stories or documents that would lead to them uncovering the existence of a life he couldn't fully remember. He didn't need someone doing that and so he had to get rid of the problem at its source.

His eyes once again fell onto his roommate who was definitely still awake, he needed time to think so he finished setting the lantern down back on his bedside table and opened the drawer where he pulled out a pen and a notebook, and he began to write.

When he was finished he tore the page out of his notebook and tore out another to fold into a small envelope before sticking his letter inside. He would have to wait until he was alone to send it so he carefully tucked everything back into the bedside drawer and climbed under his sheets as well, where he laid awake until it was time for breakfast.

With the school being the richest in all of the Light kingdom he didn't expect for the cafeteria food to be absolutely disgusting. And cold. They were in the Light kingdom. You could leave food on a windowsill for five minutes and it would be decently warm, leave it for ten and it would be as hot as it was when you first cooked it. That may have been an exaggeration, but it's not hard to warm up food when all you had to do was let the sun touch it.

The cafeteria was large and had three tables down each side of the room, with the actual food serving counter off to the far right of the room. Venus sat at a table on the left side of the room closest to the back. His food sitting on top of the red table cloth directly under the light coming through the window. There weren't many people around him, most of them choosing to sit closer to the food serving area or closer to the door. Somewhere probably excited to get to class but some people, Venus at least, haven't received anything yet. He looked around the room until his eyes landed on the guy with long hair he'd been seeing since he got to the academy. He thought Flos told him he was Cymbeline but he honestly couldn't remember at the moment. He did really care at that moment either. He continued looking around the room as soon as their eyes met, unfortunately Venus did not find his roommate. And had no idea where he could be, he left the room early in the morning when Venus was digging around in his closet.

He had to find him, he couldn't let this kid find any opportunities to reveal his identity. He quickly finished eating his food, no matter how bad he thought it tasted, and got up to leave the cafeteria. He just hoped that the kid wouldn't take any possible suspicions right to the head of the school, if he wasn't deliberately placed with Venus because they were suspicious of him from the beginning. If they got any confirmations at all, who knows what they'd do to him before forcing him to join the noble dragon shifters. If they even made him join them instead of sending him to his death on the battlefield. No no no he was getting ahead of himself again, he needed to focus on the task at hand. Find Maelo, and then he'd have to find a way to make sure he couldn't tell anyone what he had seen if he'd even seen anything.