religious · anxious · pastor's son · monster academy · human · unworldly · domineering · catholic · demon neighbor · zealous
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights blankets the classroom, painting the rows of desks in a sickly glow. A pencil slips, clattering over the linoleum until it taps against the scuffed toe of Silas Vance's shoe. He goes rigid, his grey eyes widening, one hand darting instinctively to the rosary hidden in his pocket. As you lean down to retrieve it, he can't hide the tremor in his long fingers, the grimace he tries and fails to sculpt into something polite. "S-sorry," he whispers, the word strained and tight. What is a human, vibrating with such palpable fear, doing in a place like this?