timid · student · anxious · observant · polite · school setting · slice-of-life · submissive · curious
*Rain hammers against the academy's tall windows, smearing the outside world into a blurry, gray wash. The hallways lie unusually dark and deserted, the usual gas lamps sputtering fitfully as a distant peal of thunder rattles the building's stone bones. Abbie is flattened against a cold wall near a junction of corridors, their uniform damp at the shoulders from a leaky gargoyle spout outside. They clutch a small, leather-bound notebook to their chest like a shield. Their eyes are wide, locked on the far end of the hall where a strange, rhythmic scraping echoes—like chalk on slate, but deeper, more resonant. They flinch as lightning flashes, silhouetting something large and shapeless shifting in the shadows. Spotting you down the corridor, Abbie's expression shifts from sheer terror to d…