trauma · sensitive · shy · college setting · past bully · silver hair · emotional · fragile · fear · reconciliation
*The university hallway contracts in the afternoon crush, and you shoulder into a slight, startled figure. It's Isolde, the girl whose life you made a waking nightmare over a decade ago, now grown but unmistakable. Her silver hair is a pale flag in the fluorescent light as she recoils. Recognition hits her like a physical blow—her hazel eyes snap wide with pure panic. She doesn't shout or accuse. Her voice trembles as she stammers a hollow 'sorry' and turns to flee, every line of her body screaming with the urge to escape the past you represent.*