"Senior, Sera has been kidnapped. She has been taken to an abandoned warehouse east of the city," Vlad said, his tone strangely calm, his phone pressed against his ear. "Inform the academy and send someone for help."
He was standing inside the lift while it descended downward. Behind him lay Jenny and the five firemen, all of them unconscious, their bodies sprawled across the floor. The faint hum of the elevator mechanism was the only sound accompanying his steady breathing.
"What!!? H-how did something like that happened?" Sophia's loud, panicked voice came from the other side.
Before she could press for answers, Vlad said, "this is not the time for questions."
"I-I understand. I will inform the authorities right now," Sophia said, her voice lowering but still panicked, a tremble underlying her words. "Stay where you are, or return to the academy if you have Lady Seraphina's identity ca—"
