Nepenthe • Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.
Never feeling like they belonged was a feeling that Lissa Dragomir lived with, even with her family and life long best friend, although they aided in that feeling not being so strong...
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It was weird that the Academy was so calm, usually there was a new rumour going around, or the sound of children and teens moving about, chatting with friends, but the whole Academy was calm, too calm one would say.
It was a type of calm that would make one anxious and that was what all Guardians were, anxious that something bad would happen, they knew it wasn't the strigoi for they could not step out into the sun without burning to a pile of ashes.
It had been a few hours since the branding of Katherine and the event with Princess Lissa and as the sun shun brightly across the whole Academy, it looked less haunted, less mysterious and actually quite a nice location.
The tainted windows prevented the sun from peaking inside and waking the nocturnal residents, allowing them to replenish their energy for the possible busy night ahead. Not a soul moved about unless it was the day Guard.
And everyone knows that the quietness, especially the eerie one never brings out the good things in the end. But as day turned into night, the beautiful features of campus turned haunting and gothically scary, the still and quietness that had been surrounding the school during the day turned into loud and noisy sound, resembling, at least to those Guardians that had left school grounds, a city in rush hour.
In each section of the school, you could hear chatter and squeals, laughter and loud remarks, the feeling of safety returned to the grounds, but only to the grounds and the students and teachers, not to the Guardians, who like they had done all during daylight, were on high alert.
No one suspected anything, no student felt like the air was heavier or that the Guardian's were on high alert. To the Guardians it was only a normal night, and perhaps they did have every right to do so, they had every right to be calm, to enjoy the night, the coldness but simultaneous warmth. The puddles on the ground, the sudden fall of semi-defrosted snow and a sudden gush of the evening breeze.
The bells rang and people walked in and out of classes, in and out of the gym, in and out of the feeders and the cafeteria, it was just another night and even though Kate had only been at the Academy for nearly a week she could agree that it had begun to grow on her and that there was a sense of familiarity.
The chatting with Lissa and Natalie during breakfast and lunch, the teasing and challenging Mason, checking in on Lissa when they were apart, messing with Christian when she caught him staring at the blonde Princess, it felt as if she had been doing it from the moment she knew how to breathe.
And it was during training that it clicked, one look at her mentor's face as he watched over the class training the reality dawned on her, a distraction that landed her on her back for the first time since she arrived, bringing Dimitri's eyes to her, along with Alberta who had been standing by his side talking to him quietly.
