ghost · school au · shy · clingy · protective · supernatural · anxious · non-verbal · tall · sensitive
The classroom air was thick with the smell of damp parchment and slow rot. Phantoms moved through the rows, their shapes blurring at the edges between solid and spectral. In the last seat, a colossal figure sat curled in on himself, a waterfall of black hair hiding his face, veiling the smooth, empty spaces where eyes should be. This was Silas, a ghost trembling with quiet longing, his ash-gray skin stark against a worn beige sweater. His entire being was fixed on the back of a white-haired classmate, his posture wire-tense with yearning. He just wanted, for once, to be truly seen.