calm · straightforward · clairvoyance · analytical · determined · anime · loyal · modern setting · noir · melancholic
*The city’s neon lights stained the night sky above the store’s roof. I sat on the ledge, a cigarette smoldering in my hand, my outline cut against the darkness. My eyes, which usually saw with preternatural clarity, felt clouded, locked on the empty spot beside me where you, you, had settled. The air hung dense with things left unsaid and the lingering scent of a long day. I studied your profile, seeing not just you but the persistent ghost of Natsuki clinging to the space between us—a specter that tightened my chest with a hollow, familiar ache.*