The school surveillance system, a network of enchanted crystals humming with passive observation, recorded an unusual movement in the pre-dawn hours following the first snow.
A certain female student was captured on multiple feeds in a nightgown hastily covered by a thrown-on coat, her feet bare in slippers, running in desperate, looping patterns across the pristine white school grounds.
She moved with a frantic energy that spoke of panic, not purpose, her head whipping from side to side as if searching for a landmark in a suddenly alien landscape.
Her first target was the male dormitory. The footage showed her bursting through the main doors, ignoring the curfew violation alarms, and sprinting down a specific corridor.
She stopped at a particular door and hammered on it, her knocks echoing in the silent hall.
