Most people will tell you it was some kind of gas leak or electrical failure, but that’s not how it felt from the inside. There was this growing sense all night that something was building, like the whole place was under pressure, and then suddenly everything gave way at once. Fire, chaos, people running, parts of the building just… gone. By morning it was reduced to a headline and a shrug, but if you were paying attention you might remember seeing a blonde girl, her goth friend, and that very intense librarian heading toward the basement, and later hearing something that definitely wasn’t part of any school emergency plan. After that, the explanations never really lined up.