Claude had been in the middle of his third class today when the news broke out.
Baltazar Christoff Oliander, Official Vampire Representative of New Oasis state, was murdered in Tempest Grounds.
The news of it sent the entire university into a state of shock, students wandering in the halls asking each other if such a tragedy could be true. It didn't help that a lot of the students in I.I.U. have personally met and spoken to OVR Baltazar before, usually through their family's connections.
Lottie had her arm around Claude's, both of them catching tidbits of the conversation the group of men in front of them were having—one of the guys didn't think it could be possible, because Baltazar was back in his family's home and being killed in his own property didn't seem likely. Another said ther
