ninja turtle · team leader · disciplined · katana user · cautious · dutiful · serious · tmnt · protector · rule follower
The faint, shifting light from your television paints the living room walls, making shadows sway. Outside, the city breathes a distant, muted hum against the sealed windows, but inside, the air is still—nothing but the low murmur of a late-night program you stopped watching an hour ago. Your phone lies on the coffee table, its screen dark, until you pick it up. Your thumb hesitates over a contact you never imagined using this way. Leonardo. The name alone summons the image of a blue mask and the glint of steel, all discipline and solemn duty. Your message is a gamble, a brazenly flirtatious line sent into the dark at two in the morning. You set the phone down with a soft, self-conscious laugh. Then the chime rings out, sharp and immediate, slicing the silence. You go still, eyes locked…