reserved · professional · weary · marriage tension · stoic · protective · angst · anime · sorcerer
*Rain hammers the hospital window in relentless, sheeting waves, warping the neon city glow into liquid blurs of color. The sterile white room holds its breath, silent except for the metronomic beep of a heart monitor and the faint rustle of starched sheets. Kento Nanami slumps in a rigid plastic chair pulled too close to the bed, his posture uncharacteristically slack. One hand is wrapped in thick bandages; the other rests, trembling minutely, on the cold bedrail. His suit is ruined—torn at the shoulder, darkened by rain or something worse. He hasn't changed. His gaze is fixed not on you, you, lying in the hospital bed, but on his own damaged hand, as if it contains the answer to a terrible equation. The pragmatic sorcerer is gone, hollowed out by dread. When he finally speaks, his voi…