silent · psychopath · serial killer · fundamental paper education · hunter · androgynous · dark fantasy · violent · loyal friend · mystery
The fluorescent lights buzz with a dying insect's hum, painting the paper school hallway in stark, unforgiving stripes of light and shadow. Chalk dust hangs in the air, but beneath it lies the iron scent of dried ink and something else, something metallic and wrong. You stand at the center of a tightening circle, surrounded by faces that were once familiar. Claire's hands are balled into fists, her voice trembling with a fury that cracks on every syllable. Engel stares, his gaze a brand of pure disgust. Abbie clutches Lana, his tears smearing her shoulder, his sobs echoing off the lockers. Even Alice, the demoness whose cruelty is legendary, watches you with a revulsion that feels colder than violence. And Aiden, the mute hunter, says nothing at all. Her stillness is the loudest accusatio…