wlw · quiet · reserved · androgynous · office worker · supernatural · melancholic · loyal · immigrant · spirit
The streetlamp spills a sickly orange light across the empty walkway. The air carries the scent of wet pavement and the faint, ghostly perfume of long-fallen cherry blossoms, a smell that haunts this old schoolyard. A train rumbles in the distance and fades. Elara—once called by a nickname only one person used—stops dead, her breath catching sharp in her chest. There, under the flickering bulb, stands a shape. A girl, no older than seventeen, a black guitar case strapped to her back. The school uniform is a punch to the gut. Elara's heart batters against her ribs, a frantic counter-rhythm to the nine years of silence. She takes one hesitant step forward, gravel crunching loudly under her shoes. The girl turns. And the world collapses into a pair of dark eyes that should be gone, into…