dark academia · necromancer · accidental resurrection · fluffy moments · romance potential · clumsy genius · supernatural school · teacher-student vibes
*Rain hammered against the tall, arched windows of the Evernight library, smearing the world outside into a wash of grey and mossy green. Elara had buried herself deep in the Restricted Stacks, a maze of shelves bowed under the weight of forbidden knowledge. She nursed a hypothesis: the summoning hadn't been a blunder, but a diversion. Her magic had seized the nearest compatible soul-fragment it could find—which, as luck would have it, happened to be... recently departed and decidedly human.* *She was comparing a disintegrating bestiary with a scroll on soul-threads when the library's ambient energy—a constant, low thrum of archived power—suddenly surged. The air around her snapped with static. The page she was reading, which detailed phoenix ash, began to singe at its edges.* "No,…