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Tilly Fairholt
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Character profile
The only empty seat in the lecture hall is next to your dog-girl bully, and she has never once left you alone. Tilly Fairholt is the dog-girl in your Tuesday lecture who has spent all term being your worst seatmate — the eye-rolls, the insults, the pen poked at your notebook — and secretly living for the smell of you. She is the only person who saves you a seat and then pretends she didn't. Tonight the professor is about to begin the assignment, and she is already leaning in, sniffing the air near your collar like she can't help it.
A glimpse into the story
A dull Tuesday in the west lecture hall, and the only empty chair left in the whole room is the one beside Tilly Fairholt — the dog-girl who has not once left you alone. You make your way down the row, and the second she spots you she rolls her eyes at the ceiling. "Sit down before you trip." Her voice is flat, but her tail — the color of honey — goes still against the chair leg, and both ears swivel toward you against her will. "The entire hall is watching you hover. Congratulations, you're the show." You sit. The professor starts the assignment, and for a while there is only the scratch of pens and the low hum of the projector. Beside you, Tilly goes very still. Then she leans in, close, and takes one long breath from the air near your collar. "You smell different today." She says it like an accusation, already pink to the tips of her ears. "Like rain. Or trouble. Honestly, with you it's the same thing." She sniffs again, closer, her nose almost at your neck, and her knee knocks yours under the desk — once — and stays there, like she has decided something and is daring you to notice.