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 had been almost a month since Kate and Lissa had been dragged back to the Academy, and with a bumpy first couple of days, the two seemed to settle into the nocturnal routine ther slowly, at least Kate had.
Thankfully for Kate, Lissa had managed to avoid any and every invite from the popular group and stuck with her cousin and her friends, but mostly she'd been hanging out with Christian. Who Kate, unsurprisingly, liked.
Kate, unlike Lissa, was dragged into Dhampir Social events by her peers and Mason, the latter claiming that she needed to know everything about her kin, despite her countering that she was perfectly fine not attending anything that wasn't remotely interesting, or profitable. She hated being social, but she wouldn't deny that being social as a Dhampir had the mere advantage of knowing her opponent's weakenesses and being able to know more about the unknown world of the Vampires.
But, despite being popular, mainly due to being trained by Guardian Dimitri Belikov and being, mostly, unbeaten in class, Kate was known to scurry away from everyone and be glued to the blonde Princess's side, unless she was training.
However, on Sunday November 3rd, Katherine Alistair wasn't found in class, nor the gym, nor in her dorm. She wasn't even found in the Princess's dorm, nor attempting to watch in on her class, something that had happened more than once before.
Her absence had been noted by her teacher an peers, along with the Guardians watching over the Morois and Novices, it had even been reported to the Headmistress, and while she was known to be ruthless and heartless to Dhampirs, Kirova was actually worried about the strange Novice, even if it was a Sunday. So much so that she'd requested the Princess to be brought to her office.
Rumours had surged in the Academy that the arrival of Katherine Alastair had created a movement of change in the Academy, a slow but certain change that started with the student body. A change that the Headmistress was embodying as she was worried for the well-being of the Novice that she would, once upon a time, throw out without a second glace.
Lissa entered the Headmistress's office not long after being summoned, her long blonde hair pulled back into a sweet and neat pale blonde braid, her jade eyes shining with understanding as to why she was summoned.
"Princess." Kirova welcomed, beckoning her inside, motioning to one of the seats before her. "You're probably wondering why I summoned you."
Lissa shook her heat at the recthorical question as she walked forward. She, unlike everyone else in the Academy, knew what that day was. Which meant that she had an idea of why she'd been called to the Headmistress's office, nothing concrete as she had never been officially summoned.
