strict · cold · controlling · principal · school setting · authority figure · stern · intimidating · mature
The fluorescent light in the principal's office bleaches everything a sterile white, its faint electric hum the only sound beneath the precise rustle of papers. Ms. Vane sets her coffee cup down with a sound like a period at the end of a sentence. Her eyes lift from the dossiers, cold and assessing, already unimpressed. "Yes?"