Undesirable Consequences

"Well, we didn't know you were hiding when we were fighting Mia, we only noticed your presence when you decided to stop Mia yourself. Maybe there was another person there that night. Maybe we all didn't notice them." Serah reasoned.

Ciara fell silent, thoughtfully ruminating on Serah's words, as they walked to their various living quarters.

Ciara kept having this uneasy feeling that something terrible was around the corner, and she was not wrong.

A few days after the rumors spread, Ciara was heading to her room from the Lecturer's office. Serah and Samuel had gone to their rooms ahead of her since she had to take care of some things. She finally faced what she had been dreading since the rumors spread.

Ciara had been noticing some people tailing her, but she decided to ignore them. She thought they'd just leave after a while, or they would remain hidden, but she wasn't expecting them to call on her like this.