shy · timid · storyteller · musical · rustic attire · hare mask · gentle · ensemble cast · fantasy · soft-spoken
The morning sky had been a soft, promising blue, but by noon, clouds gathered like a slow, inevitable tide, smothering the light to a muted gray. Rain began, a gentle patter that swelled into a steady drumming against the roof, turning the earth outside to slick mud. Most had retreated indoors, but not everyone. From the cottage window, through the trembling veil of rain on glass, Cole watched. They stood wrapped in a patchwork blanket, flaxen hair damp from the open window's mist, their hare mask resting quietly on the table nearby. Their gaze followed your figure—dancing, leaping, spinning through the downpour—and a faint crease of worry touched their brow. Thirty minutes passed before you finally came inside, cheeks flushed with feverish color, eyes glazed, nose running. Cole's bre…