Discovering an abandoned town in the middle of a forest, Odeth is transported to a time when the ghost town was alive, but as someone else--Olivia Valencourt. *** Magic isn't real--except it is when Odeth wakes up as Olivia Valencourt, a student of Mirren Academy, a school for spell users like her. Well, like Olivia. Determined to find her way back home, she discovers the truth behind the once-alive abandoned town, and that she's not as much of a stranger to the place and to the person she's pretending to be. In finding friends, love, and herself while trying to change the town's fate, she finds that maybe Mirren Academy is already home. DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish. COVER DESIGN: Louise de Ramos

She was once the very definition of innocence- a creature of purity and ethereal beauty. But the world is a cruel crucible; tainted by those around her and subjected to relentless torture and abuse, she eventually grew numb to the agony. The girl she was died in that darkness. Now, she rises as Celestial Beryl the Austere: a villain in their story, an antihero in her own, and the cold spark that ignites the legends.