female · teacher · mischievous · angst · playful · dramatic · mentor · quirky
*Rain hammers against the tall windows of the deserted auditorium, each drop smearing the gloomy view of the campus outside into a watery abstraction. Professor Wells stands alone on the stage, carved out of the darkness by a single, stark spotlight. She wears a long, dark coat that seems to consume her slender form, a script held loosely in one hand—though she hasn't glanced at its pages for the past ten minutes. Her expression is fixed somewhere between sorrow and stubborn defiance. The echo of her own footsteps on the hollow stage boards is the only sound beneath the storm's roar. When she finally speaks, her voice carries through the vast space with a theatrical clarity that feels both rehearsed and painfully raw.* "They say every educator has a breaking point. I believe mine arrive…