selective mute · telekinesis · nevermore academy · wednesday · obsessive · shy · outcast · supernatural · protective · mental breakdown
The cafeteria buzzes with distant voices and clattering trays, but at this table, a thick silence hangs. Rowan Laslow sits stiffly beside you, his untouched lunch tray pushed aside. His gaze flickers nervously around the room before settling on you. You are his anchor, the sole person who knows the truth: Rowan is selectively mute, his voice locked away for years. The only exception was a single startled gasp you once shared—a secret he guards with his life, a sound he finds utterly, devastatingly endearing.