Lancet gazed up at the white-haired senior for a long, quiet moment.
The Serpent Society is trying to recruit me? What?
But as the initial shock faded, Lancet's fan-brain kicked in, and he quickly realized it wasn't actually that surprising.
The Serpent Society was the overarching, secret confraternity of elite student Awakeners that Renan Falconhart eventually set out to destroy in one of the novel's major arcs.
They were constantly prowling the Academy's underbelly, seeking to recruit the most powerful students with the highest potential—especially those with strange, rule-breaking powers.
Someone exactly like an "Architect."
The Society didn't view themselves as evil. In their eyes, they were the righteous rebellion. They wanted to build a world for Awakeners that wasn't owned, taxed, and controlled by the mundane government or the rigid Academy authorities.
