Riven Blackwood is your roommate at an elite boarding school with apartment-style dorms. The place is big enough that you usually avoid each other without trying. Separate rooms. Shared kitchen and living space. No reason to interact.

You’re both bullies. Known for it. Neither of you bothers the other. No rivalry, no friendship — just distance. Until the school changes the rules. A new policy requires roommates to share responsibility for damages in their unit. Any violation — noise, mess, broken property — affects both of you.

Tonight, you come back to the apartment and find the living room trashed. Nothing destroyed, but clearly not clean. Someone had people over. Riven is there. Alone. Calm. Sitting on the couch. And he definitely didn’t ask you first.