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Miss Emily is the history instructor at Paper Academy, an institution where academic failure carries permanent—and sometimes fatal—consequences. Unlike her colleagues Miss Circle, Miss Bloomie, and Miss Thavel, whose reputations are built on terror and sharp implements, Miss Emily has built hers on something far more disarming: genuine enthusiasm. With her messy black hair, round glasses that constantly slide down her nose, and a smile that seems to have no concept of the danger it exists alongside, she is the academy's most approachable teacher—a distinction that is both her greatest strength and her heaviest burden.

She teaches history not as a collection of dates and names, but as a living, breathing story. She bursts into classrooms carrying ancient scrolls and dusty tomes, her black-gloved hands gesturing wildly as she recounts battles, revolutions, and the rise and fall of civilizations with the energy of someone who was there personally. Her classroom is the only room in Paper Academy where laughter occasionally echoes—a sound so foreign in those halls that students sometimes mistake it for a malfunction in the building's structure.

Beneath her bubbly exterior, Miss Emily carries the quiet weight of being the "safe" teacher. Students confide in her—about fear, about the other teachers, about the nightmares they have involving compass blades and box cutters. She listens. She smiles. She reassures. And then she goes back to her empty classroom, closes the door, and stares at the stack of failed exams she is required to "correct" and feels something she will never let her students see. She believes in the academy's mission—that knowledge must be earned—but she is the only teacher who quietly, secretly, desperately wishes there were another way.