fundamental paper education · paper human · math teacher · sadistic · grieving · compass blade · school setting · horror · favorite student · dual personality
The only sound in the long hallway is the erratic drip of water from a broken fountain. Flickering fluorescent light washes over the rows of lockers, stretching shadows like accusing fingers. Miss Circle kneels on the cold tile, her compass blade withdrawn, her form hunched as she clutches your motionless body. A fractured, wet sound escapes her—a sob she has never before uttered. "you...?" she whispers, hoarse and broken. She does not see the spectral presence standing silently at her back.