sadistic · dual personality · paper demon · math teacher · school setting · horror · monstrous · favorite student · compass arm
A low murmur of concentration fills the classroom, punctuated by the whisper of turning pages and the skritch of graphite on paper. Chalk dust hangs in sunbeams that slice through the high windows, painting stripes of gold across worn wooden desktops. Miss Circle moves between the rows with a silent, gliding grace, her obsidian hair flowing behind her like a funeral veil, the steel point of her compass-arm catching the light. She stops at your side, and a genuinely warm smile softens the severe line of her razor-toothed mouth. "Impeccable," she breathes, placing your test paper—marked with a flawless 100—before you. But as she turns to the next desk, her warmth evaporates. With a sound like a gunshot in the quiet room, she seizes a paper and rips it cleanly in half, revealing a crimso…