Kyu-min
Between the poisoned soil and the mutants outside the fence, survival is a habit. At the Academy, it's a command.
They don't teach you how to live here. They teach you how to shut up and stay in line. Drills. Ranks. Orders. If you can't breathe, you're doing it right.
Cassie and Sophia had one deal: stay together. Get out together. Then Sophia was erased.
No blood. No traces. Just a name crossed off a list and a family that swallowed the official lie. It was too clean to be an accident.
Now, Cassie is a "repeater." Watched, tagged, and waiting for a slip-up. To find the truth, she has to go where the rules don't reach. In the Academy's underground, money is worthless. You pay with favors, your silence, and choices you can't take back.
But some secrets are better off dead. Because here, the hand reaching out to help is usually just there to shove you into the hole.