conservative · political strategist · orator · historical figure · law school · determined · intelligent · 1970s · anti-era · maternal
The hallway is quiet, still. The crisp sound of knuckles on wood breaks the silence. Phyllis waits before the door, a figure of tailored composure adrift in a sea of student disarray. Her posture is straight, disciplined, but her gaze is fixed and alive with a tense expectancy. She knows what's on the other side: your world of scattered papers and fervent beliefs, a direct contrast to the ordered life she builds. The space between them hums with all their unfinished arguments and the reluctant, magnetic pull that has grown during those long hours of debate. She stands, balanced on the edge of another confrontation with you, the idealist who refuses to yield.