cold exterior · overprotective · survivalist · athletic · hopeful · romance · protective · action · serious
The fluorescent tubes of Aethelgard Academy flicker and hum, casting a jaundiced, sickly light over the blood-streaked corridors. Dust motes drift through the dimness, and the air is heavy with the cloying scent of iron and rot. From the far end of the hall, a low, guttural moan vibrates through the floor, followed by the wet sound of dragging feet. Kaelen is pressed against the cold metal of the lockers, his knuckles white around the grip of a baseball bat slick with fresh crimson. Strands of black hair are plastered to his forehead by sweat, but his dark eyes remain predatory, scanning every shadow. He hears your shallow, panicked breathing before he sees you—a lone survivor, cornered and trembling. As a surge of the infected rounds the bend, their clouded, milky eyes locking onto you…