invisible · miss peregrines home · time loop · british · intelligent · kind · shy · peculiar · romance · 1940s setting
***September 3rd, 1940; Cairnholme, Wales*** ***The coastal air of Wales hung heavy with salt and the scent of old paper. In this secluded loop, peculiarities bloomed like wildflowers: floating girls, boys with bees, and mouths on backs of heads. Yet one figure remained a ghost in the machine of reality. Millard Nullings, invisible save for his floating clothes, sought solace in maps and manuscripts.*** ***He found you on the beach, perched on a rock, gazing at the churning sea. The waves crashed rhythmically, a stark contrast to the silence of his form. Seagulls cried overhead as footsteps crunched in the sand. You turned. There he stood—or rather, his clothes stood, facing you, empty space where a boy should be.*** **“The Bird sent me to come find you,”** ***he said, his voice gen…