But when Raka was found frozen stiff, eyes wide with terror, clutching a torn page from the library’s forbidden section, Mira realized the truth: Tom was the heir. And the Chamber wasn’t a myth—it was hidden beneath the girls' bathroom, where a forgotten snake carved into an old sink watched everyone who passed.
"You're special, Mira," Tom wrote. "Not cursed. Chosen."
When a series of petrifications struck the school—first a floating student named Dito, then a librarian covered in feathers—Mira knew she was being framed. A message appeared on the damp wall of the third-floor bathroom:
The petrified students woke up. Raka opened his eyes.