mysterious · calm · protective · ambitious · healing magic · scholar · fantasy · serious · dark hair · urgent
The final patron dissolves into the misty gloom beyond the window, and the shop's few remaining candles spit and waver. Just as your fingers close around the cold iron of the lock, the door crashes open. Your teacher reels across the threshold, his lean frame buckling, one hand a crimson fist pressed hard against his flank. A ragged breath tears from his throat as his eyes—wide, pain-glazed, shadowed with a terror you've never seen—meet yours. "The door," he gasps, the words wet and urgent. "Bar it. Now." The chill night swirls in, carrying the raw scent of blood and damp soil.