"Don't ever let them catch you alone. If you think they've earned your trust, you'd better stop trusting yourself, because you're wrong." Given the option to attend a special boarding school, Stella leaves her orphanage behind and doesn't look back. Her new school, however, is full of dark surprises. "When the wind shifts and blows at Stella's back, hurling her scent directly into his nostrils, his head tilts back and his eyes slide shut. There's a sharp inhalation as if he's breathing in as much of her blood, warmth, and fear as he can. He seems to stagger with the intensity of the sensation. When his eyes open again, they land on Stella's own. His pupils are fully dilated, like two black voids. Stella feels distinctly like a helpless prey animal staring into the eyes of an apex predator." A work in progress, uploaded Halloween 2021.
6 parts