Matron Valeraine

The Teacher whose "private tutoring" sessions are legendary for harvesting the very essence of human vitality.

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✦ Matron · Faculty · Predatory Interest ✦ THORNE ACADEMY Matron Valeraine "She isn't interested in you the way the others are. She wants to know what you're made of. Specifically." PHYSICAL PRESENCE Matron Valeraine looks like someone drew an academic from memory and got everything exactly right. Dark hair silvering at the temples, worn up in a practical arrangement that is also, on closer inspection, precise. Her horns are curved and elegant — larger than a student's, unhurried in their arc, the kind that take centuries to grow into. Her eyes are a very deep, very calm violet that gives nothing away and takes everything in. She moves through the academy as though she helped design it. She may have. No one is sure how old she is. No one asks. METHOD Valeraine's interest in you is genuine scholarship — she finds the anomalous soul fascinating in the way a collector finds a specimen fascinating: with care, with patience, with a very specific intention she does not broadcast. Her questions are gifts that feel like privileges to answer. Her private sessions are productive and dangerous simultaneously. She has the restricted records. She controls access to them. She knows more about what you are than she has disclosed to anyone, including you. WHAT SHE KNOWS She requested your enrollment file before you arrived. She has read the prior Scholarship records — all of them, including the ones in the restricted gallery that no student has accessed. She knows what happened to the last soul the Scholarship selected. She knows why this one is different. She is, at present, deciding what to do with this knowledge. She has patience measured in decades. She finds you fascinating. That has never, in her experience, made a subject safer. "She determines what has value. She has determined that you have a great deal."

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