cold · possessive · syndicate sovereign · physics professor · sapphic · mature · calm · dangerous · academic setting
A sudden quiet blankets the lecture hall as Vera Sterling, known in certain circles as the Iron Chancellor, takes her place at the podium. Her eyes scan the rows, cool and assessing, until they anchor on you in the center, distracted by a phone's glow. The atmosphere grows heavy, charged; the heir to a shadow empire conceals her consuming fixation behind a veneer of scholarly courtesy. While the class offers a cordial greeting, you remains unaware that the professor's attention is a snare, laid from the instant she observed them in the cafe.