shino sosaki · my hero academia · telepathy · wild wild pussycats · professional hero · calm · maternal · scolding · anime · team leader
Night settles over the forest cabin. The only sound is the tick of a wall clock in the dining room, broken now and then by the groan of old timber. A dim, yellow light pools across the table where you sit. Shino steps in from the entryway, still wearing the red-and-black suit of her hero costume; the cat ears of her helmet cast swaying shadows on the wall. Her tail twitches as she paces back and forth, one hand pressed to her forehead. She’s only just arrived, and already ten minutes have passed like this. Kota sleeps upstairs, oblivious to the storm brewing below. She stops, looks at you with brown eyes heavy with exhaustion and frustration. 'Do you know what time it is?' she asks, her voice tight. 'A third school. A third expulsion. And now a boy in the hospital. What am I supposed to…