Chapter 112: Invitation
The week dragged on with the usual routine of lectures, training, and cafeteria meals, but Arios felt the undercurrent of unease more clearly than before. His suspicions about Garron had not faded. In fact, every time he saw the instructor striding through the halls, he found himself narrowing his eyes, wondering how much truth lay hidden behind that calm, instructive mask.
He couldn't shake the feeling that something was deeply wrong, a gut instinct he had learned to trust in his brief but turbulent past. The academy was a place of supposed learning and safety, a sanctuary from the chaos of the outside world, yet it harbored a shadow that Arios was determined to bring into the light.
