Lust in the Woods

ELARA POV

I sat in the suffocating silence of the classroom, my pencil hovering over the final page of my calculus exam. The harsh fluorescent lights hummed above me, casting a sterile, unyielding glare over the complex equations that blurred together on the paper. I blinked hard, trying to clear the exhaustion from my vision. I had spent the last several days running purely on caffeine, adrenali