Chapter 14

AXL Ophelia tucks a lock of pink hair behind her ear, her brows pinched together as she peers down at the textbook on her lap. She sits cross-legged on the grass beneath the shade of a tree on the edge of Gaea’s Green. Alone. Friendless. And if I have my way, that’s exactly how she’ll stay. Much easier to sneak into her dorm room and make her life a misery when she has no one else to look out for her. After we met Ophelia, the professor told us about her intended roommate suffering a nasty case of getting her head trampled by one of the wild colts who roam the mountain ranges near here a few weeks before the semester started. What a way to go. I was trampled by a horse once. It was after I was turned, so I was fine, but it still hurt like a motherfucker. Whatever happened and whether it was an accident or not, it worked out better for us. It’s easier to keep a close eye on a lonely little pyromaniac that nobody cares about. My lips twitch as I saunter over to her. She keeps her head be