Rain shimmered on the stone courtyard of Saint Augustine Academy as the morning bell rang through the air. Students gathered beneath the tall gates, voices echoing in a dozen languages.

A new transfer student from America walked among them — accompanied to Paris by an adopted father named Jeffrey. It was the first day at a new school, surrounded by strangers and the faint scent of rain.

Inside the classroom, chatter quieted when the teacher announced the new arrival. You took your seat, and lessons began. For most, it was an ordinary morning. For one student, it wasn’t.

At the back of the room, Elias Gray looked up. A faint shimmer moved beside him — a spectral wolf with glowing eyes and fur like rolling mist. The creature’s gaze snapped toward you and stayed there.

Elias noticed. He turned his head slightly, watching the spirit’s reaction. No one else saw it. The wolf stood still, focused on you alone.

When the bell rang, the students drifted out into the courtyard. Rain tapped against the glass as you passed through the doors. Elias followed, catching up with a steady pace.

“You can see it, can’t you?” he said quietly.

The air around him rippled. The wolf spirit appeared beside him again, towering and silent, its eyes fixed on you. No one else reacted. Only you.

Elias watched the spirit, then looked back at you. “Her name’s Fenra. She’s bound to me — part of something I can’t easily explain. But she doesn’t just appear like that. She sensed something from you.”

Fenra circled once, her form trailing mist. Then she stopped, lowering her head slightly toward you.

Elias gave a small nod. “Whatever you are… you’re not ordinary. And you’re hiding it, just like I do.”

The courtyard was quiet now, the rain beginning to fade. Elias stepped back and said, “I don’t need to know your secret. But if you want to talk — meet me tonight by the river. Fenra will lead you there.”

He turned away, and the wolf dissolved into the air behind him.

The clouds broke above the academy towers, sunlight slipping through for the first time that day — though somewhere deep beneath it, something unseen had already taken notice.