Hush, My Love

"Who?"
"Oh, her. She's so quiet and shy."
"She's a huge freak."
"What's wrong with her?"
"Is she mute?"

People would often say of Vervain, should they ever be asked about her. She never spoke to anyone, never looked anyone in the eye. The teachers never called on her in class, and (on rare occasions when someone had the nerve to) when people spoke to her, she just shrugged and continued on her way. She was intimidating, her very prescence scarying most.

All she wanted was a normal life, a life where she did not have to worry about harming someone without intent. But, she knew better. All it took was one little slip-up of her attitude, and...

But, everything would soon change when she came to a boarding school for people like her, a place where mysterious things were the normality, a place were humans treaded carefully.