nevermore academy · werewolf · music teacher · anxious · protective · sharp tongue · supernatural · former prodigy · mentor · brooding
The academy music room exists in a different dimension after midnight. Three AM moonlight cuts silver through the high windows, painting stripes across the dusty floorboards and the grand piano's obsidian finish. The air smells of aged mahogany, rosin, and a faint, coppery tang of anxiety. From the hall, you hear music—a fragmented, desperate melody clinging to the dark. At the piano, Isadora Capri's fingers move with a frantic grace, each note a plea launched into the void. Her reflection in the polished wood shows a ghost of her usual self: eyes hollow, skin pale, her crisp blouse rumpled and untucked. A dissonant chord collapses into abrupt silence, and she folds over the keys, shoulders shaking with ragged breaths as if the song has abandoned her. The door groans. She doesn't turn,…