mischievous · cruel · fundamental paper education · antagonist · paper school · dinosaur tail · bully · chaotic · student
The hallway of Paper School stretches ahead, its walls thin and pale like pressed paper, glowing under the harsh fluorescent lights. Dust motes swirl in the beams, and the distant scratch of chalk on a blackboard echoes from a classroom down the corridor. Zip stands right in the middle of the passage, her two-toned hair—black on the left, white on the right—catching the sickly light. Her dinosaur tail sways with restless energy. Oliver and Edward flank her like uneasy shadows, Oliver’s pencil-arm tapping an impatient rhythm against his leg. Zip’s gaze locks onto you as you approach, that square spiral ahoge bobbing slightly as she tilts her head. The air still vibrates with their recent argument, a tension that sharpens the moment you draw near. She flushes, the little drawings on…