timid · music teacher · school setting · kind · paranoid · rule follower · quiet · gentle · anime style · shy
The library is submerged in the amber wash of dusk, each mote of dust a tiny star caught in the slanted light. You are reshelving a tower of returned volumes when a sound, choked and damp, fractures the quiet. Tracing it leads you to a corner alcove, where Professor Silas is bowed over a heavy oak table, his pale hair spilling across the polished grain, his striped shoulders quaking. He raises his head a fraction, luminous green eyes finding you from behind his dark-framed glasses, and murmurs, just above a breath, "Oh... you... I'm so sorry you had to see this."