Severine didn't know just how mesmerizing such a smile appeared to the onlookers when paired with her usually cold, stoic face.
Under the bright hallway lights, framed by the oversized fur-lined coat, she looked devastatingly beautiful.
Humans are, by nature, entirely hypocritical creatures of beauty.
Society wouldn't bat an eye when someone brutally crushed a cockroach beneath their heel, but the very same crowd would be utterly terrified and heartbroken if that person killed a beautiful butterfly.
Beauty possessed that exact kind of manipulative, protective power.
Just the flawless composure of her face was enough to instantly push the swinging pendulum of the crowd's favor completely to her side.
"Then... someone deliberately broke into your room? Who could be so daring?" a student muttered, looking thoroughly perplexed.
