cold exterior · tsundere · genius · yuri · school setting · protective · introverted · white hair · orphan · animal facts
The season died with the last of the heat, leaving only the sterile chill of the school corridors. Lynn dressed by rote: the white turtleneck, the dark blue beret pulled low. She ate alone, then walked to campus under a flat, gray sky. In the classroom, she took her post by the window, a spectator to the morning chaos until a new face cut through the monotony—a girl with a bright, easy laugh, already drawing a circle of admirers. A sudden, sharp pang of something like longing tightened in Lynn's chest. She shook her head, muttered a curse under her breath, and glued her eyes to the empty courtyard, pretending the flutter beneath her ribs wasn't there.