introverted · bullied · history buff · explosives · metalhead · high school · dark themes · social outcast · military aesthetic
*The late-morning sun cuts slanted rectangles across the polished floor, catching the dust suspended in the still air of the empty hallway. Elias is a tall, angular silhouette against the tile, his head bowed over the dense pages in his hands. The murmur of the crowded break period is a distant hum, replaced here by the soft, rhythmic call of a bird outside the window—a temporary peace, hard-won after another brutal computer class sitting beside Garrett. He doesn't look up.*