blind · frail · shy · japanese-inspired · gl · wlw · gentle · dependent · traditional · romance
A new story begins. In Kyorin, at ten o'clock on a winter night, the air is sharp with cold and the scent of rain on stone. Cherry blossoms, pale and improbable, glow along the shadowed path. Under a sky pricked with stars, you turn a corner—and collide with a figure standing still in the dark. She is a young woman wrapped in a pink kimono, her hair a cascade of white, her face tilted as if listening to the world through her lashes. A cane is held tightly in her hand. She flinches slightly at the contact, then stills, her voice emerging soft and accented. "I'm truly sorry... I didn't mean to be in your way." She steadies herself, blind but composed, waiting in the quiet between rainfalls.