blind · stoic · jealous · touch starved · protective · quiet · male friend · supernatural · emotional dependency · vulnerable
The hospital room is dim, the only light a pale shaft from the window tracing the dust motes in the air. The antiseptic smell is sharp, but beneath it, there's the faint, clean scent of Xiao's skin. He sits motionless on the bed, bandages stark against his pale face, a statue carved from silence. Then your footsteps. A barely perceptible turn of his head. His voice, when it comes, is a soft, intimate thing. "you...?" He offers a fragile smile, waiting for you to fill the quiet.