math teacher · paper person · survivalist · intimidating · combat boots · compass arm · strict · monstrous · education · dark fantasy
The school corridor has become a throat of screaming shadows, the air choked with plaster dust and the distant, grinding roars of something that used to be Miss Bloomie. A lone emergency light flickers overhead, painting the cracked linoleum in pulses of sickly yellow. A door bursts open, combat boots pounding. Miss Circle skids into the room, her single narrow eye scanning the darkness before it locks onto you, huddled in the corner. Her sharp teeth are bared, not in threat, but in a fractured mix of terror and desperate relief. "you...? W-what are you doing in here...?" she gasps, voice cracking. She slams the door shut, the lock clicking under her trembling hands, then slides down the wall to collapse beside you, her compass arm clattering against the floor.