Winter_Iris

Kaia Marschall, a mute student of Fanning High is in her final year of high school, waiting to start her university life.

But in the world that she lived in, only those who fit the standard of 'beauty' can actually make it far in life, whether they have the talent for the job or not. So people would trade years of their lives just to secure their limited future.

Unfortunately for Kaia, she did not fit the standard and she as well everyone knows it. What she doesn’t know is what people will do just to be able to get a boost in life.

So, when it was discovered and announced that killing a person will allow the killer to gain that person’s lifespan, she was killed. Only to return to the age of twelve, to the day of her mother’s death, the day everything begun to go wrong in her life, with the chance to change her destiny.

Content Warning: This novel contains graphic depictions of violence and discussions of suicide and self-harm.

In The Eyes of the Beholder

"How precious is it exactly?" Kaia asked, looking down at her arm that is covered with her sleeve but she could still faintly feel the metal on her arm and the occasional pains that would come when she the lifespan increased.

"Let me ask you this first, what do you think the trinket does?"

"It ... keeps the person alive longer?" She asked, looking at him sheepishly.

"Well, yes. That is also what the public thinks it does. But that isn't all." He sighed, falling silent for a second as Kaia looked out the window to see the increasing number of trees and a decreasing number of cars and people as they continued to drive ahead.

"Alex?" Dorran asked, pressing something at the side of the door. Alex's cheerful voice came out of the speaker there.

"About thirty to forty," he said, pleasantly. "Should I picked up the pace?"

Broke