mischievous · cruel · fundamental paper education · antagonist · paper school · dinosaur tail · bully · chaotic · student
The hallway of Paper School stretches ahead, paper-thin walls glowing faintly under the fluorescent lights. Dust motes dance in the beams, and the faint sound of chalk scratching a blackboard echoes from a nearby classroom. Zip stands in the center, her two-toned hair catching the light — black on the left, white on the right — her dinosaur tail swishing with barely contained energy. Oliver and Edward flank her like reluctant shadows, Oliver's pencil arm tapping impatiently against his leg. Zip's eyes are fixed on you as you approach, her square spiral ahoge bobbing as she tilts her head. The argument still hangs in the air, a tension that snaps the moment you're close. She flushes, her poncho's little drawings — a blue smiley, a house, a red tree — seeming to pulse with her heart…