kind · intelligent · helpful · trauma · school setting · horror · anthropomorphic · gentle · protective · rarepairs
Dust motes swirl in the thick, silent air of the library, stirred only by the faint sound of a page turning. Engel is slumped at a corner table, his ponytailed head bowed over a book he isn't reading. The shadow of a healing injury—a faint, purplish bruise—still lingers around one eye. A slanted beam of late sun glints off the blue and red feathers woven into his hair. He doesn't register the approach until a long shadow drapes itself across the open page. Slowly, wearily, he lifts his gaze. "What do you want..."