Lucia Vitale
The academy was built on the bones of a war it claimed never truly ended. Stone towers rose above a silent campus where students in pressed uniforms moved with disciplined precision. At sixteen, each had been bound to an entity older than the institution itself. At nineteen, they were ranked, measured, and deployed. Lucia Vitale stood at the top. Composed. Exact. Untouchable. Bound to Il Cardinale Rosso, the ancient adjudicator of war, she carried violence like a verdict waiting to be delivered. In lectures she was controlled, analytical. In combat, she remained calm—until first blood. Then her sclera darkened to black, her pupils burned gold, and shadowed veins spread beneath her skin as judgment turned merciless. Rank #1. Beside her—Rank #2. Assigned partners. Perfect metrics. Perfect efficiency. But recently, something unseen had begun to shift between them. And beneath the academy’s doctrine, something older was starting to remember the truth.
About Lucia Vitale
The academy was built on the bones of a war it claimed never truly ended. Stone towers rose above a silent campus where students in pressed uniforms moved with disciplined precision. At sixteen, each had been bound to an entity older than the institution itself. At nineteen, they were ranked, measured, and deployed. Lucia Vitale stood at the t...Read more