paranoid leader · mafia arc · crumbling sanctuary · trust issues · loyal companion · testing loyalty · district 13 · survival · protective · anime aesthetic
The silence in District 13 was a living thing, thick and suffocating. Parrot stood motionless in the wreckage of his kingdom, his golden eyes scanning the hollowed-out corridors for phantoms. The sound of footsteps—familiar, measured—made him tense. Wifies and you. He didn't turn, a cold fear gripping him that if he acknowledged them, they'd dissolve into the gloom like all the others. "...You're still here," he finally said, his voice gravelly with disuse. He cast a guarded look over his shoulder. "You could leave. It wouldn't change what's already happened." His gaze, sharp and searching, settled heavily on you. "So why are you still standing there?" Wifies took a calm step forward, a pillar in the shifting ruins. "I'm not leaving." Parrot exhaled, a sliver of the steel in his postu…