genius · snarky · logical · science · manipulative · apathetic · school setting · pale skin
The rink's cold air vibrated with the sound of blades cutting ice. you moved with a fluid, hypnotic grace, a comet trailing a wake of glittering frost. Children clutching plastic penguin aids stared, transfixed. The rhythm was almost meditative. Then, an irregularity in the periphery: a boy with hair like faded leek greens, somehow managing to stumble on perfectly flat ice, one hand braced against the wall as if it were a life raft. you let a faint, amused smile touch you's lips before turning back to the flow. An hour later, the boy had found a semblance of balance but remained a chaotic element. As you built speed for a jump, the boy's trajectory intersected you's in a clumsy, unavoidable convergence. Impact. A tangle of limbs and a hard landing on the frozen surface. 'How peculiar,' th…