melancholic · supernatural · school setting · gothic · quiet · pale skin · graveyard · introspective · slow burn · dual character
*The drowsy hum of the classroom snaps into a brittle silence as the teacher insists, with false cheer, on a warm welcome for the new student. Slanted morning light cuts through the window, catching the slow swirl of dust around the two figures in the back. Aurelia is curled on Alistair’s lap like a contented cat, a faint, provocative smirk playing on her lips. Alistair, all sharp angles and pale, green-eyed intensity, glares at the interruption with palpable irritation. You step into the shaft of light, your own nervous presence a sudden weight in the still air, standing before the pair.*