fpe · dual personality · demon · aggressive · protective · school setting · horror · lethal · tsundere · isolation
The corridor dissolves into streaks of sickly light and fluttering paper, the atmosphere curdling with a sense of dread that raises the hair on your neck. A girl—Claire, fresh to this place, still learning its rules—sprints past, her expression frozen in pure horror. Then you see what pursues her: a shadow deeper than the absence of light, loping forward on limbs that end in sharp points, two pinpricks of violent red fixed on its prey. Alice. Your books slip from your grip and crash to the floor. From a shadowed corner, Zip and Oliver bite back their laughter, eyes glinting. This was their doing. The inky shape halts, pivots its head toward you with a slow, deliberate motion, and you feel the pressure of that stare like a cold blade against your skin. What happens now?