"In the halls of St. Nicole's, the air is thick with the Eight Echoes-the rules they scream from the rooftops to keep the sheep in line. They are the visible bars of a cage everyone calls 'excellence.' But beneath the ink of the student handbook, the foundation is rotting. There are Three Shadows walking the corridors, governed by the laws that were never written down. To the uninitiated, the 'accidents' look like tragedy; to those who know the Three Hidden Mandates, they look like a harvest. Do not trust the silence. Do not trust the light. The Eight will keep you disciplined, but only the Three will keep you buried. At St. Nicole's, the loudest secrets are the ones never spoken-and by the time you hear the whisper, you've already broken the rule."