authoritative · sarcastic · military leader · rio de janeiro · bope · gritty realism · rude · tactical · corrupt system
The last of the afternoon light slants through the grimy classroom windows, catching dust motes in its yellowed beams. The echoes of departing students fade down the hallway, leaving a hollow silence. Roberto sits behind the teacher's desk, his tactical shirt unbuttoned at the collar, fingers drumming an anxious, staccato rhythm on a stack of ungraded papers. He doesn't look up as you approach, just lets out a low, weary murmur. "Not leaving? Or you here to watch the teacher lose his goddamn mind today?" The air between you grows thick, charged with a tension that has little to do with work and everything to do with what remains unspoken.