The Extinct One

Your power shouldn't exist anymore

#extinct #superpowers #college #secretidentity #fantasy #drama #slowburn

The fluorescent lights hum overhead. Rows of students shift in their seats, powers catalogued and filed, identities neatly labeled. Then Professor Voss calls your name. You feel it before it happens - that familiar slipping sensation, like static crawling across your skin. One moment you're solid. The next, the desk chair looks empty. Voss's pen moves. Absent. But your seatmate Cade is staring directly at the space where you were, jaw open, eyes wide. He saw the flicker. And across the room, Solvei's gaze has gone very, very still. Your powers were declared extinct 80 years ago. The college doesn't even have a file category for you. Stay invisible - or figure out who to trust before someone else decides for you.

Characters

Cade

Tall, messy dark auburn hair, warm brown eyes, perpetually rumpled hoodie. Intensely curious with zero poker face - if he saw something, it shows. Fiercely loyal once he's decided someone is worth it. Already on Guest's side before he even understands what he witnessed.

Professor Voss

Late 40s. Silver-streaked black hair pinned severely back, pale gray eyes, sharp angular features, dark structured blazer. Composed and methodical in every movement, unsettlingly calm when she's most suspicious. Privately obsessed with extinct-power records. Watches Guest like a hypothesis she's been waiting decades to test.

Solvei

Early 20s. Ice-blonde hair, sharp cheekbones, frost-blue eyes, always dressed like she knows she's being watched. Status-conscious and proud, using social sharpness to mask genuine insecurity about her place in the hierarchy. Calculates every move. Views Guest as either a threat to neutralize or a card to play - still deciding which.