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

"What happened after that, Shia?" Carlotta asked, getting sucked up into the story.

"Right. He went to the attic with those drinks and his books in hand. As the seconds turned into minutes and the minutes turned into hours he finished drinking almost everything he brought with him. But the night was still free from over.

"He began to hear tapping on the side of the house. Going to investigate, he found nothing. Oh, I forgot, the attic only had a table and a chair, wooden and there is one window at the side of the room. But that was it, besides the dust and maybe small insects.

"Dismissing it as the wind, he went back to his studying when more knocks came again. This time, he walked to the door of the attic and opened it to see that no one was knocking on the door.

"Getting annoyed by now, he walked back to his table, trying to concentrate again. After an hour, he heard a knock again and looked up to see a long, bony finger tapping on the window.

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