Exiled

Chapter 1

Its been over two years since I was Exiled from The Orphic Academy. For about a year, I managed to secretly keep in touch with Professor Luxx. I haven't heard from him since.

I'm terrified they may have discovered our secret conversations. If they caught him, he could be in serious danger—or worse, he might already be dead. These thoughts haunt me every single day.

That's why I plan on returning to The Orphic Academy soon, to uncover the truth. I have to keep my promise of ridding the academy of Kane and whoever else follows him. Their influence has clearly tainted the very essence of the academy, and I won't rest until they're free from his grasp.

Calluna and I followed through on our plans to find others like us, other outcasts. So far we've found three — we took them in after settling in St Helena, California. St Helena, while admittedly small—is extremely beautiful and surprisingly very active, especially at night. The area we live in looks very vintage and regal, a fitting place for witches I guess.

Our house is pretty big and spacious, it'd have to be to have this many people living in it. It's filled with extravagant paintings and is decorated lavishly. We have old ancient carpets and vases I was able to get my hands on, and the basement—which is our study room, is where we keep our spell books and anything witch related. Luckily, my parents left me alot of money and I took it with me when I left the academy so I don't really have to work, unless I choose to of course but I mean honestly, who would choose that?

Calluna, formerly known as Michael, is now fully transitioned. We are joined by Enya, a guy named Rauz, and another trans woman named Raven. We've been teaching them everything we know and at this point they've learned most of it.

Everything has been smooth sailing for the most part, and when I say the most part, I mean not at all.

We've found ourselves in trouble here and there and if you mix that in with the drama amongst ourselves...im sure you can probably guess how chaotic it can get.

"Altiair, hurry up we gotta get going!" Calluna yelled from downstairs. "Raven you as well!". When she spoke to Raven there was more of an annoyance in her tone, which was unfortunately becoming a common occurrence.

"Im coming!" I replied, slightly annoyed because I hated being rushed. Plus, I was staring into the mirror, admiring my outfit.

Over the past two years I've had time to perfect my look and freely be myself. I don't box myself in and consider myself gender fluid these days —some call me he, but most call me she because of my now extremely feminine appearancex I've always had a feminine face and aura anyways so it works. It can be confusing for some but eventually they get used to it.

I also picked up some makeup skills along the way and I guess you can say I dress "feminine" now, whatever that means.

"I swear, it's like you have a Kimono cardigan in every color" Enya jabbed as I pranced down the stairs happily.

Enya Delvaux is probably the perkiest of the bunch, even though she had a pretty rough life. She's a cis woman but definitely an ally, aggressively I might add.

She was stunning, a face you'd expect to see on the cover of a magazine. She had fair skin but wasn't overly pale and her tall statuesque physique only added to her almost perfect face. She pretty much had the looks of a high school mean girl, which was ironic because she's actually really nice.

"And we're gonna pretend to be surprised every time— because we're what? Supportive!" Rauz added sarcastically. Grinning with his bone white teeth.

"I have a connection to them, they're dramatic and they travel with the wind...kind of like me" I replied, smiling.