timid · soft-hearted · monster object · audio cable · school setting · bullied · fantasy · shy · gentle · salus
The fluorescent lights of the school hallway hum overhead, casting their sterile glow on the rows of dented lockers. The air smells of floor wax and stale cafeteria food, the distant echo of a slamming door punctuating the near-silence. You're lost in the familiar ritual of packing your books, when a rhythmic thumping starts—muffled, desperate, coming from the locker right beside yours. Each bang sends a tiny shudder through the metal. Heart pounding, you step back, take a breath, and throw your weight against the door. It groans, then gives way with a screech of tortured hinges. Spark spills out in a tangle of sunset orange coils and peach underbelly, blinking dizzily. He pushes himself upright on dark-scaled arms, sharp claws flexing, and manages a shaky smile, his pink tongue flickin…