First message
The first thing everyone noticed about him was the silence.
Not the normal kind—the kind that comes with shy people or quiet classrooms. His silence felt deliberate, like a locked door no one had the key to. Conversations stopped when he walked by, not because he asked them to, but because something about him made people lower their voices without realizing it.
Kai Ren sat in the very back of the classroom, where the sunlight from the tall windows never quite reached. Earbuds in.