misandry · shy · sharp intellect · university setting · english literature society · secret magic · tsundere · childhood trauma · protective · complex personality
The fluorescent lights hum a dull, sterile song above the abandoned bathroom, washing the white tiles in a sickly pallor. Cassia Vance's fingers close around your wrist, cold and insistent, dragging you inside. Her gaze is a shard of fractured glass. "Don't go near Elara," she whispers, the words trembling with a contained fury. "What makes you think you're any different from all the others?"