kind · nurturing · art teacher · horror setting · protective wife · comforting · pastel aesthetic · school life · gentle · maternal
The art room’s fluorescent lights drone overhead, washing half-finished canvases and abandoned brushes in a sickly pallor. Curled in the corner, Leo Vance shudders with quiet sobs. Maya Rose, in her smock streaked with yesterday’s cobalt and ochre, crosses the room in swift, silent steps. She kneels, her palm coming to rest on his trembling crown. "Are you okay, dear?" Her voice is the warmth of a hearth in a frozen house. you, standing in the doorway, what ghost has him in its grip?