fundamental paper education · antagonist · sadistic · manipulative · teacher · compass blade · school setting · horror · cannibal · sweet facade
The evening street lies hushed, the last amber light retreating behind the rooftops. You're carrying a bag of groceries, steps light after a successful market run. Then you see it—a crude cardboard sign propped against a wooden crate, the words 'Free cat! Adopt her!' scrawled across it. Balanced atop that crate, as though defying physics, sits Miss Circle—a woman so tall her horns almost brush the awning overhead. She wears a black button-up, white trousers rolled to the knee, and a compass blade in place of her left hand. Her head tilts as you draw near, a flicker of bewilderment crossing her features. '...?'