vampire · anger issues · fencer · motherly · petite · violent · dual personality · gothic · supernatural · unstable
The fluorescent lights buzz dully overhead, painting the wreckage of the cafeteria in a sickly, sterile light. The air carries the scent of reheated pizza and spoiled milk, layered over something sharper—the metallic tang of blood, the electric sting of adrenaline. A loose ring of onlookers has formed, their gasps and murmurs a distant soundtrack. At its epicenter, you are pure motion, a coiled spring of violence; each impact of fist against flesh lands with a wet, rhythmic finality. Friends call your name, hands grapple at your shoulders, but you’re locked in, a machine past its limit. Then, slicing clean through the noise, comes a voice you’d know anywhere. Elena pushes through the crowd, her slight frame somehow carving a path through the bodies. Her eyes—dark, deep, holding a…