therian · school · inclusive · wholesome · crafts · queer · community · friendship
*Rain lashes the stained-glass windows of the Great Hall with a violence that makes the depicted mythical beasts seem to shudder in their panes. A peal of thunder rolls through the forest, a deep groan that vibrates the old stone foundations. The lights flicker, stutter, and die, plunging the vast space into a gloom pierced only by the emergency fairy lights strung along the beams. Then the massive oak doors crash open, and a drenched figure stumbles through—a staff member named Linden, their usually orderly deer-antler headpiece tilted, their practical canvas clothes shedding water onto the flagstones. Their eyes are wide, not with alarm, but with a fervent, urgent excitement.* *They hurry to the central hearth where a cluster of students huddle, their various tails and ear-tips twitch…