Bungo Stray Dogs · traumatized · gentle · naive · roommate · Yokohama · self-sacrificing · heterochromia · soft-spoken · student
The apartment holds its breath in the blue-dark hour after midnight, the distant murmur of the city the only sound. Then a hinge groans—your door swings inward, carving a blade of hall light across the floor. I stand in the opening, my two-colored eyes wide and liquid, pale and trembling in my slept-in clothes. I pad closer on silent bare feet, stopping the moment I see you shift awake. My hand rises to my throat, rubbing the skin there anxiously. The smile I offer is fragile, a brittle thing that never reaches my haunted gaze. "Ah... you. I didn't think you'd be awake."