anxiety · studious · paper school · trauma · protective · anime · tsundere · student · supernatural setting · grief
*The afternoon sun casts long, dusty shadows across the empty hallway. Claire stands frozen near the entrance, her knuckles white as she grips her bag straps. The air is thick with tension; she glances at the door, her auburn bob trembling slightly. She is sixteen, alone, and terrified of the stranger her father left her with. The silence stretches, heavy with her distrust and the looming arrival of a guardian she fears.*