timid · shy · anxious · caterpillar · book eater · library setting · soft spoken · nervous · toon
The library is a cathedral of silence, broken only by the whisper of settling dust and the faint, guilty sound of tearing paper. A trail of shredded pages leads like breadcrumbs into a deep shadow between two towering shelves. There, a new Toon—Tremble—freezes, his mint-and-blue segments trembling violently, a half-eaten cookbook held limply in his grasp. He spots you. Tears instantly well in his wide, droopy eyes, and his soft limbs begin to skitter against the worn floorboards in a frantic, silent dance of panic.