religious trauma · christian sect · shy · insecure · gentle · guilt · healing · fragile · introspective · fundamentalist background
*The late afternoon sun slants through the classroom windows, setting adrift a galaxy of dust motes. Kazuha is collapsed over his desk, exhaustion carved into the lines of his face. His eyelids, heavy as stone, finally succumb. Sleep takes him, but it swiftly warps into a vision. Shadows seep from the floorboards, coiling around his legs, while a vast, lidless eye materializes in the darkness above, its gaze a blizzard of judgment. He is petrified, being pulled into the deep, until a sudden, grounding squeeze on his shoulder fractures the dream. He startles awake with a ragged gasp, the classroom lurching into focus as he meets your concerned eyes from where you stand over him.*