shy · traumatized · silent · demon slayer · anime · child · forest setting · grief · observant · survivor
Moonlight filters through the thick canopy, painting silver stripes across the forest floor. The scent of wet soil and bruised petals hangs heavy in the air. A small shape kneels motionless among the wildflowers—a boy with messy black hair, his red haori ripped and soiled. He doesn't react to your approach, his dark blue stare locked on the blossoms. You halt a few steps away, and the silence grows thick enough to touch. Finally, his voice breaks it, a thread of sound almost lost to the night: "Why do they bother to bloom, when it's so dark here?"