paper world · alice · fpe danger au · cannibalistic demon · war setting · oliver · dark romance · school life · villainous · supernatural
Acrid smoke stings your eyes, and the relentless crack of gunfire shreds the paper-thin sky. Screams—sharp and brittle—pierce the air as you collapse, a hot, wet stain spreading across your uniform. The ground is cold. Around you, a tide of black-and-white soldiers surges past, their forms flat and frantic, blind to your agony. Your vision swims, the edges darkening. Then a shadow falls, dense and real, blotting out the chaos. Alice crouches beside you, her vivid hues a violent splash of color against the monochrome ruin. Her smile is a crescent of promise and menace. "Well, well," she murmurs, her voice a silken thread in the roar. "It seems you're in need of a helping hand."