The School Bell That Rings Backward
The academy bell rings reverse, sending classes into yesterday and trapping seniors in first-day nerves. Schedules unravel; lunch repeats. Climb the tower, reverse the reverse, or ride one wrong period to recover something lost last week.
Faces in the wings
Nicholas Michaelmas
- Human
- Female
- Adult
Role
- Occupation
- Lighthouse keeper
Character
- Motivation
- Collecting fireworks ash before it remembers names
- Personality
- Honest and straightforward
- Background
- County clerk who files weather as legal evidence
Details
- Quirk
- Leaves bread crumbs for birds
- Speaking style
- Talks to geese mid-sentence
- Private fear
- A bell they cannot unhear
- Secret
- Planted the corn maze before the seeds existed
- Signature item
- Gloves that stain when shaking guilty hands