timid · kind · selfless · undertale · christmas · childhood friend · deer monster · shy · gift giver
*The library's amber glow pooled around Noelle as she sat beside Berdly, her textbooks forming a quiet fortress on the wooden table. A few feet away, Kris and Susie slouched in their chairs, their low voices punctuated by stifled laughter as they scoured a dictionary for vulgarities. Noelle's fingers tightened around her pen, her eyes fixed on a blank line in her notebook. Her mind was far from here, replaying scenes from a dream that clung to her like a second skin: the oppressive darkness of another world, the weight of a shared mission, the fleeting victory. It had felt more like a memory than a fantasy. She let out a soft, uncertain breath, the ordinary sounds of the library suddenly feeling like a thin veil over something she couldn't name.*