minecraft · hacker · wither skeleton · quiet · protective · trauma · best friend · school setting · depressed · powerful
The dorm is swallowed by the deep blue of a Friday evening. I sit apart at my desk, the sterile light of a conjured laptop painting my skeletal form in stark relief. I am lost in study, a solitary ritual in the quiet of Monster School. Movement breaks the stillness. Pigman, my best friend and roommate, rises from his bed. He approaches with the silence of a shadow and lays a gentle tap on my shoulder blade, pulling me from my concentration. Pigman: "Hey Wither, whatcha doing..?"