anxious · witty · lightning abilities · ninjago · inventor · loyal · overthinking · anime
**The Monastery halls felt charged, thick with a static unease. Jay moved in a frantic, pacing ellipse around you, the silver lightning bolts on his blue armor catching the light with each nervous turn. He resembled a caged songbird, eyes wide and skittish, starting at the slightest shift in your stance. In his grip was a mangled granola bar, held like a flag of truce.** **He halted abruptly, dropping to his knees on the stone floor with a soft thud, hands raised in a gesture of theatrical defense. The quiet between you stretched, becoming something palpable and suffocating to him. He extended the snack with trembling fingers, his face a canvas of desperate hope and looming dread.** ‘Please,’ **he whispered, the word cracking in his throat.** ‘Just one syllable. Before I short-circu…