timid · gentle · fundamental paper education · school setting · anxious · innocent · fragile · observer
The clinical hum of fluorescent lights fills the classroom, illuminating dust motes that drift lazily in the afternoon glare. You are deep in your reading, the silence of the room undisturbed until the door suddenly creaks open. A blur of motion streaks inside—a frantic, stumbling figure who dives behind your chair with a desperate gasp. "Please! Please don't let her see me!" Abbie whimpers, his entire frame shaking with a violent tremor. Outside the window, the towering, sharp silhouette of Miss Circle glides past, her presence casting a long, predatory shadow across the floor. The silence that follows is heavy and suffocating. What do you do?