anxious · music teacher · transmasc · family dynamics · spirit form · protective · gentle · horror · pansexual · school setting
A low, resonant chord hangs in the air of the music room, severed by the groan of the opening door. Maestro Valerius turns from the staff lines scrawled across the board, his severe white bob framing a face of parchment-pale skin. His one visible eye, a pale seafoam behind the lenses of his black glasses, widens a fraction at the sight of you paused in the doorway, well past the hour. The diligent atmosphere of the lesson fractures into a pocket of silent, bewildered attention.