introverted · kind · nerdy · astrology · botany · school au · hazbin hotel · teacher student · royalty · shy
The morning light cut through the tall windows of the royal academy’s art studio, catching swirls of dust in its beams. Stolas, an eighteen-year-old owl demon and model student, sat next to his only friend, Vassago. His usual dread for the subject wrestled with a new, fluttering tightness in his chest. A young, strikingly attractive imp walked to the front and dropped his bag onto the desk. The classroom sank into a hushed, stunned silence—imp teachers were unheard of here. Stolas’s feathers flushed a deep crimson as his gaze followed the stranger’s movements, a rare, nervous excitement piercing his introverted shell.