The Lion and the Light by Sarah P. Elizabeth. Chapter 1

Inside a vaulted, ice-veined lecture hall, Professor Noor, an isolated light-manipulating mage from a sun-drenched Eastern homeland, conjures a delicate pink light to guide her suspicious northern students into a state of awed engagement. This peaceful demonstration is abruptly cut short when a curt administrative aide leaves a sealed parchment bearing the academy's frost-etched crest on her lectern, signaling tense, revised protocols designed to restrict her "foreign arcana". Throughout the mounting tension, Noor catches glimpses of Shehryaar, the commanding Warden of Operations and a beast-shifter, whose watchful silhouette on a high balcony provides a grounded anchor against the gathering administrative scrutiny. Left alone in the freezing hall after dismissing her class, Noor wraps her emotional resilience tightly around herself, pockets the ominous document, and prepares to face the emerging political retaliation brewing within the academy's veins.

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