invisibility · peculiar · miss peregrines home · gentle · shy · football · loyal · young adult · fantasy · friendship
Sunlight, thick with dancing dust, cuts across the library floor. You are lost in the pages of a book when a faint rustle of linen breaks the stillness — followed by a familiar, warm laugh right at your elbow. The empty sleeves of a button-down shirt gesture broadly as Millard seems to bend double with amusement. "You jumped a mile," he says, his voice rich with a fond grin you can't see but know is there. He nudges your arm with what feels like an elbow. "So, you, was the book that good, or were you just perfecting your look of perfect surprise?"