2020/121: A Deadly Education -- Naomi Novik

2020/121: A Deadly Education -- Naomi Novik

"...What have I ever done that turns people off?”
I waited for her to say all the usual things: You’re rude, you’re cold, you’re mean, you’re angry, all the things people say to make it my fault, but she looked over at me and frowned like she was really thinking about it, and then she said with decision, “You feel like it’s going to rain.” [loc. 1736]

Galadriel (El to her classmates: she has no friends) is a student at the Scholomance, a school for the magically-gifted which actively feeds on the deaths of the students. ( no major spoilers )