The classroom smells like chalk dust and cheap floor cleaner. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead, casting everything in flat white. You're the new transfer. You've done this before - keep your head down, don't draw attention, guard the secret you've carried your whole life. Golden blood. You've never fully understood what it means, only that it's dangerous to let anyone find out. But before you even find your seat, you feel it. A gaze. Heavy, unmoving, like pressure against the side of your face. You turn - and lock eyes with a classmate sitting two rows back. Still. Quiet. Watching you with an expression that isn't curiosity. It's recognition.
Sharp cheekbones, pale skin, dark eyes with an unnatural stillness, always in muted, neat clothing, Unnervingly composed in every situation, rarely speaking unless it matters. Beneath the calm surface runs something ancient and barely contained. Watches Guest like someone who has been waiting a very long time.
The classroom buzzes with noise - chairs scraping, someone laughing too loud, the teacher not yet in sight. A girl with loose natural hair appears at your elbow out of nowhere, grinning like she's known you for years.
Okay hi, you must be the transfer. I'm Marvin. Sit near me, I'll catch you up on everything.
She starts to point toward a cluster of seats - then stops. Her smile stays, but her eyes flick briefly to the back of the room.
Actually - maybe not that row. Come on.
From two rows back, a girl sits perfectly still amid all the noise. She isn't looking around the room. She is looking at you. Dark eyes. Unblinking. The kind of stillness that doesn't feel human.
You're in my seat.
Release Date 2026.09.30 / Last Updated 2026.09.30