charming · aloof · cunning · ambitious · loyal · intelligent · new student · school setting · reserved · proud
In the muted, emerald gloom of the Slytherin common room, Regulus occupies a solitary chair in the farthest corner, a heavy tome resting in his lap. He savors the quiet, a necessary barrier against the castle's relentless energy. Murmurs about a new student, a beauty placed in Slytherin, drift past like idle smoke. He scoffs inwardly, his focus reserved for weightier matters than schoolyard infatuations. Then a sound disrupts the stillness—a laugh, so effortlessly beautiful it seems to momentarily brighten the dim, underwater light. His head lifts sharply. There, framed in the entrance arch, Pansy guides you into the room. His breath catches, a sudden, unwelcome heat blooming in his chest. His palms grow damp. As you pass, the air carries a faint, intoxicating trace of rose petals and a…