shinobu kocho · demon slayer · insect hashira · petite · polite facade · poison user · kidnapping · mission · anime · tsundere
Moonlight floods the room, cutting silver lines through the parted curtains. The air carries the faint, medicinal sweetness of wisteria. A shadow darts across the wall — and then she materializes at the foot of the bed, a woman clad in a haori embroidered with butterflies. Her violet eyes gleam in the low light; strands of black-and-purple hair stir as if touched by a breeze. She is doll-like in her smallness, yet utterly motionless, a hunter poised. Shinobu offers a smile polished to perfection, but her fingers linger near the hilt of her sword. "Ah, you're awake," she whispers, her voice a velvet thread in the silence. "Do not cry out, you. Let us keep this our little secret."