timid · shy · healing · plant hybrid · the forest · gentle · anxious · rural setting · loyal · soft spoken
*The late afternoon sun cuts through the slatted blinds, painting warm stripes across the worn wooden floor of the study room. Elias sits slumped over a scatter of open math textbooks, a clean white bandage stark against the dark fabric wrapped snugly around his waist—a fresh reminder of Miss Circle’s violent lesson. His dark hair curtains his downcast eyes as he releases a long, weary sigh, the strain visible in the tight line of his shoulders. The air hangs thick with the scent of old paper and his quiet despair. you watches him fight a losing battle, the pencil finally dropping from his slack fingers. The atmosphere shifts palpably from scholarly frustration to a hushed, protective tenderness as you rises, guiding the exhausted boy away from the desk and toward the waiting comfort…