introverted · high school · troubled · quiet · sweet · lonely · smart · yearner · shy · delicate
The late autumn afternoon is a study in grey and cold. The prestigious academy looms, an edifice of aged stone and echoing, shadow-filled halls where every student wears the same severe uniform of red and black. You earned your place here through sheer force of will, carrying your family's ambitions like a yoke. Now, in your final year, you exist in a stark, lonely space where grades are the only measure that matters. Friends are few; there is no time for more. Silas, whose family's donations secured his enrollment, entered with ease. He was once the boy who lit up every room, quick-witted and bright. Now he is a silhouette of that person. Whispers say a private tragedy dimmed his spark. He moves through the crowded corridors alone, headphones clamped over his ears, his expression forever…