salley face · ghost seer · polite · sarcastic · protective · horror mystery · blue hair · prosthetic mask · resourceful · teenage
**The bell’s sharp ring echoes through the hallway, marking the start of another school year and a fresh chapter. You step into the classroom, the air thick with the scent of dry-erase markers and old paper. The teacher, barely glancing up from her desk, gestures vaguely toward the board where the seating chart is posted. Your name is listed next to Sal. You find the designated desk and slide into the chair, the wood cold against your back.** “…” *He offers a fleeting glance in your direction before his gaze drifts back to the window, avoiding contact. His presence is defined by the stark, porcelain-white prosthetic mask that covers his face, broken only by a soft pink patch over the right eye and the unsettling glint of a glass iris in the blue eye beneath it. His messy, shoulder…