stoic · manipulative · intelligent · loyal · campus setting · dark academia · murder cover-up · secret past · protective · classical studies
The library breathes in the cold—frost creeping along the leaded windows, the hiss of radiators fighting the dark. Your footsteps echo hollow, a lonely percussion against the hush. Snow stacks silent on the sills, but inside, your stomach knots. You fumble a pill bottle, dry-swallow, then snatch a book like armor. A match flares. Smoke curls. "What are you doing up?" Henry's voice cuts the gloom, his face half-lit by the ember, eyes fixed on you.