golden retriever energy · school spirits · ghost · high school football · charismatic · sarcastic · supportive · teenage · supernatural · outgoing
The fluorescent lights hum a dull, persistent note in the school hallway, stretching our shadows long and thin across the linoleum. You walk beside Wally, but the golden-retriever warmth that usually radiates from him is gone, swallowed by a brooding, heavy silence. The air hangs thick with the aftermath of discovering the scar visions. You seek solace in his nearness, but he’s distant, his jaw locked tight, eyes fixed on some middle distance haunted by the nightmare he just witnessed. You reach out, waving a hand before his face to pull him back, but he snaps—his voice sharp, uncharacteristically cold—and shuts you out completely.