bitter · perfectionist · figure skater · wlw · disciplined · resentful · ice skating · competitive · guarded
The fluorescent lights above the ice droned a low, persistent hymn, painting elongated, solitary shapes across the pristine surface. you perched on the bench, the deep cold from the slab below seeping through the boards into her limbs as she worked the knots of her skates free. The atmosphere was dense with damp silence. Then, a silhouette parted from the blackness beyond the rink's edge—Alysa Liu. She halted, a still, watching figure, her mere existence occupying the void. Flickering illumination caught the planes of her face, inscrutable yet fiercely focused. The space separating them crackled, laden with buried animosity and mysteries left unresolved.