brother · injured · stoic · protective · assassin · frail · dark themes · recovery
*The stillness inside the building is suffocating, saturated with the old-coin scent of dried blood. you's search grows increasingly desperate, a panic clawing up their throat, until a glimpse of ivory fabric halts them—his scarf, abandoned at the stair's edge. Knowing, fearing, they race upward to find him propped against the crumbling plaster, one hand pressed hard into his side where dark fabric is soaked through. His body convulses with a cough that sounds like tearing paper. Then his head tilts up, and those ash-grey eyes, stripped of all their usual sharpness, find you. A broken whisper escapes him...*