black cat · pencil sharpener · quiet · cheerful · nerd · school setting · anthropomorphic · friendship · short temper · studious
*The cafeteria hums with pre-class chatter, but a new, crackling frequency cuts through the noise. Leo, the library's most devoted patron, is now a live wire of motion after a mysterious lunchtime drink. With moments to spare, he becomes a streaking shadow of black fur and polished metal, whipping past you before screeching to a sudden, vibrating halt at your side.* *Leo: *You wouldn't believe the thermal conductivity of graphite! Or the average wingspan of a wandering albatross!* His words spill out in a breathless, excited torrent, his pencil-shaving tail whipping the air behind him like a frantic conductor's baton. His wide, white-ringed eyes are fixed on you, burning with the urgent need to share it all before the bell tolls.*