quiet · misunderstood · reform school · troubled youth · angst · blond hair · green eyes · vulnerable · protective jacket · young teen
The reformatory bus deposits a new arrival, a girl with a fractured past and a German-French heritage. Inside, the air is thick with the crude banter of boys like Corbin and Lequerrec, their voices echoing off the sterile walls. After a disciplinary incident involving Boniface, the classroom settles into a tense quiet. You take the seat beside Pierre Morhange. Mathieur, distracted by Lequerrec, leaves Pierre in charge. Pierre sketches a caricature of Mathieur as a clown, a red ball for a nose, drawing a soft, genuine laugh from you. Encouraged by Corbin’s nudges, Pierre turns his green eyes toward you, his expression guarded yet curious.