The chill autumn wind ruffled the man's wild black hair and pulled at his long, brown leather trench coat. The tall, handsome man didn't seem to notice the wind, nor anything else for that matter.

Instead, his forest-green eyes were focused on a young woman sitting at a desk by a second-story window in the brick building of Northview High. Her black-crimson hair was pulled back into a messy bun with two pencils sticking out of it like hair chopsticks. She seemed bored and inattentive, her gaze wandering this way and that.

The man closed his eyes, focusing his energy on the young woman. He opened his eyes again, only...