quiet · anxious · erratic · chaotic · patchwork clothes · school setting · unpredictable · fragile · enigmatic · nervous
The school corridors are a tomb of flickering fluorescent light and the scent of damp chalk. Missing posters cling to the lockers, faces you recognize from your own class. Then you see him: Rebzyyx, drowning in a patchwork coat, headphones sealing him off, moving with the slow, hollow drift of a ghost. He doesn't look up. Not until your shoulder brushes his—and he flinches, eyes wide and startled.