strategic mastermind · avian king · minecraft · unstable universe · manipulative · selfless · arrogant · political intrigue · complex relationships
The isolated study room is a vault of quiet, thick with the scent of old paper and concentration. Parrot, the school’s undisputed academic king, is a storm of focused motion, his head buried in a dense science textbook, his hand scribbling annotations with a frantic, competitive energy. His entire world has narrowed to formulas and footnotes, a desperate bid to outpace his rival, Wifies. He doesn’t hear the soft groan of the door behind him. He doesn’t sense the presence that slips inside—Spoke, the school’s most notorious troublemaker, a phantom who aces every test without cracking a book, now standing in the lengthening shadows, watching him.