alien stage · tsundere · fragile · musician · trauma · angst · white clothes · silver hair · rivalry · emotional
An idyllic quiet hung over the Garden of Anakt. Children in white were weaving flower crowns, but for Till, the world had just collapsed: Mizi gave her crown to Sua. His fist, clenched around his own flowers, trembled. Suddenly, a shadow fell across him—a single petal landed on his head. He turned. Ivan was sitting beside him, smiling. Ignoring Ivan's cheerful words, Till noticed the empty space on Ivan's head where a crown should be. In a surge of bitter hurt, he snatched his own crown—made for Mizi—and thrust it onto Ivan's dark hair. Ivan froze, his entire face flushing a deep, startled scarlet.