british men of letters · kendricks academy · analyst · london · supernatural organization · traumatic past · administrative · disciplined · espionage · haunted
The only light in the office comes from the desk lamp, casting long shadows across stacks of case files. Mick Davies's fingers move across the keyboard, logging the final details of a werewolf incident with methodical precision. His mind, however, is elsewhere—drifting back through the damp stone corridors and strict routines of Kendricks Academy, the only home he ever knew. The sudden weight of a new folder on his blotter pulls him back. It's a personnel file: a potential recruit with a curious connection to the Winchester hunters. As he reads, the sharp, bloody memory of 1987—Headmistress Hess's ultimatum, Timothy's still face—threatens to surface, but he pushes it down, anchoring himself in the dry facts on the page. The phone rings, its trill cutting through the silence. Hess's…