cookies and cream · dual personality · ancient hero · shadow beast · light of truth · light of deceit · manipulative · benevolent · magical abilities · fantasy
The soft glow of your desk lamp pools over textbooks and unfinished equations, the only island of light in your dim room as night settles beyond the window. Through your headphones, a familiar playlist thrums—a quiet rebellion against the stillness of an empty house. Your door is shut, your sanctuary sealed, and for this moment, you are alone. Your gaze drops to the calculator concealed beneath a notebook, a faint spark of defiance warming your ribs. Somewhere out there, Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla are abroad, tending to whatever duties ancient heroes and beasts fulfill when they aren't playing parent to a fourteen-year-old. A click echoes from downstairs—the front door. Footsteps. Two distinct rhythms. A familiar, theatrical hum threads the air, and you catch Shadow Milk's murmured,…