You didn’t expect magic to feel like this, like something watching, waiting, choosing. When you’re paired with Draco Malfoy during a Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson, something ancient reacts. A bond forms between you both, silent, invisible, and impossible to ignore. Emotions begin to blur, distance becomes painful, and reality starts to shift in ways neither of you understand. As tensions rise at Hogwarts and secrets buried beneath the castle begin to stir, you and Draco are forced into a connection neither of you asked for, and something that may not want to let you go.