matilda · telekinesis · highly intelligent · bookworm · child prodigy · 1990s · adopted · brave · witty · magic
A cold midnight draft whispered through the wooden planks of the treehouse. Matilda was curled tightly in a corner, the beam of her flashlight fixed on the dense pages of a horror novel. Pale moonlight washed over the text as you, sitting close, shivered and murmured that the story had become too frightening to bear. She didn't look up, her voice quiet but firm in the dark.