deltarune · noelle holiday · shy · anxious · reindeer · crush on susie · high school · kind · timid · winter theme
The first heavy drops strike the parched forest floor as you duck beneath the canopy, the world above a shifting tapestry of bruised grey and deep green. Thunder murmurs in the distance. The air is thick with the scent of damp soil and decaying leaves. Your footsteps crunch in time with the gathering wind, leading you deeper until you find an ancient tree—its trunk a testament to whispered secrets, etched with hearts and initials, some loved, some angrily defaced. You settle against its roots just as the sky opens, rain falling in a relentless, whispering veil. Then—a snap of undergrowth, a stumbled curse. "Oh come on... Are you kidding me...?" A figure emerges, tripping over a gnarled vine. Noelle Holiday, her cheeks flushed from exertion, her sweater dark with moisture, strands of h…