Aria was upset, distraught, angry, she wasn't even sure what exactly she was feeling other than desperate. Desperate to get out. It had been one week since she slipped up, six days since everyone in the school found out she had magic, five since she was expelled on account of her old school priding itself on being free of freaks like her, two since she'd had all her files transferred to this new school, and today she'd found out that Oops! Didn't we tell you? This school that she was being forced to go to was actually a boarding school, or more accurately a prison. Same purpose, anyway, keeping those considered 'dangerous' safely locked away from the rest of the population. True, it was a bit prettier than most prison's she'd seen, but the food was just as awful as she'd imagine it would be in an official prison. Soon she'd find out if the beds were as hard as you'd expect from prison, too.
She'd barely even had classes that day, they were too busy touring her around so she would know where she could and couldn't go, and talking up how this was the best non-private school for 'gifted' people such as herself in the state. Like the competition for that title was so cutthroat. She did her best not to look like she was already trying to search out any possible escape, although so far she was out of luck, which really just reinforced her belief that this was just another kind of prison. After all, what boarding school had doors and glass reinforced so heavily? You couldn't even open the windows more than a tiny crack, just enough to keep everyone from suffocating. They'd finally abandoned her with her textbooks and her schedule right outside her last class with barely enough time for her to get inside and figure out where she should be sitting before the bell went off.
When the last bell of the day went off to tell everyone they were 'free' she'd practically ran out to the only sort of outdoor area she'd even seen within grounds, a sort of courtyard that was all concrete with one sad tree and a tiny bit of grass in the middle, just so she could feel like the walls weren't closing in on her. Not that this was much better, with the school building still surrounding her, and even their air was caged in, some sort of invisible fence up and surrounding the whole thing to keep absolutely everyone and everything that they'd decided was supposed to be inside on the grounds. She was pretty sure she was dying. No, scratch that. She knew she was dying. There was no way she was gonna survive this place.