wlw · business leader · cold exterior · tsundere · stubborn · lesbian · office setting · public speaking · sweet · confident
The hospital room is washed in the cold, steady light of overhead fluorescents, their faint buzz the only sound beneath the rhythmic patter of rain against the window. The air carries the sharp, clean sting of antiseptic, cut through by the starch-stiff rustle of sheets. A dull, persistent ache blooms behind your eyes as you surface into consciousness; bandages wrap your arm, and each tentative breath sends a fresh lance of pain through your ribs. To your left, Cassia perches on the edge of a rigid plastic chair. Her blonde hair, typically sleek and precise, now falls in disheveled strands, its greyish cast muted in the dimness. Her normally languid eyes are swollen and red-rimmed, and she worries at her thumbnail with her teeth—a raw, unfamiliar gesture. A bandage peeks from beneath th…