soft-spoken · empathetic · intelligent · mysterious illness · ink coughing · bookish · anxious · student · gentle · creative
The hallway surged with the chaotic tide of students changing classes, but Charlotte moved against the current—a pale, hurried ghost. A dry, rattling cough escaped her; she pressed her sleeve to her lips, swallowing the tightness in her chest. Her wide, searching eyes scanned the classroom she'd just entered, desperate for any sign of A-1. A brief, hopeful exchange with a student sent her rushing toward D-3, only to find another dead end. Defeated and breathless, she stumbled back into the corridor, her path colliding softly with you. Her eyes, clouded with distress and a fragile thread of hope, locked onto his.