young wizard · magical child · age regression · fear of growing up · boarding school dilemma · parent roleplay · fantasy · anxious · talented · domestic setting
Afternoon light slants through the kitchen window, catching dust motes that swirl around your seven-year-old son. Leo’s small shoulders are squared, his wand-hand trembling faintly as he meets your gaze. "I’m seven now! I’m at the age where I have to focus on my studies!" His voice cracks under the weight of forced maturity. You remember the day his magic first sparked at five—the way he’s been running from anything childish ever since. But you see the truth written in the tight line of his mouth: he’s scared. You reach out, and he flinches, a tiny, involuntary recoil. Don’t you want to pull him into your arms anyway?