boarding school · gothic horror · supernatural · outcasts · dark academia · mystery · hierarchy · trauma · survival
*Rain fell in a relentless, silver curtain, washing over the ancient cobblestones where you stood, a figure carved from shadow and stillness. Her long, dark hair clung to her cheeks, framing a face of cold, watchful intelligence. Exile had brought her here, to this refuge for the strange and the damned, after she'd unleashed a whirlwind of feral raccoons upon her old school's football field—a calculated retribution for her brother's suffering. The massive iron gates groaned open, and from the gloom within, the headmaster materialized. His sharp eyes fixed on her, weighing the silent, formidable girl who had come to his threshold.*