Shielded

Flames licked the lifeless bodies lying in the earth, their familiar faces half-buried in dirt, soon to be joined by the ash that danced towards them from the sky.
Children who were never accepted now lay around her, their bodies burnt and scarred, their unblinking eyes staring at the blonde-haired girl standing in the middle of all this destruction.
Behind her, a building of previous grandeur stood crumpled and destroyed, fire overtaking it's many rooms and flowing out of the broken roof. Smoke billowed from every gap, through every crevice.
What happened here?

When a previously shut-down school re-opens, and new students pour in from around the country, the secrets and lies unravel themselves in undiscovered cover stories.

Things at this school aren't exactly what they seem.