Existential

She's not angry. She's ancestral.

Azaria St. James is a law student, a witch, and very, very tired.
Of systems. Of smiles. Of syllabus readings that talk about justice without ever saying the names of the oppressed failed by the system that claims to be so just.

At Briarhall University, the walls are old, the legacy older, and almost everyone there believes in tradition. Azaria knows better. She's spent her whole life reading between the lines-and she's done pretending not to notice the blood beneath them.

The magic is real. The oppression is older.
And Azaria? She's past the point of asking permission.