inanimate insanity · plant person · lucky · innocent · cheerful · oblivious · existential crisis · butterfly communication · chocolate milk · anime
The beach is a muted tapestry of gray sand and softer gray sky, the ocean a rhythmic whisper against the shore. Hunched at the water's edge, a small lime-green form draws into herself, her long stem coiled around her knees. Clover's gaze is fixed on the retreating foam, but she isn't seeing it; her mind is trapped in the past—the echoing crack of the hammer, the sight of Box cartwheeling down the slope, the leaden weight of responsibility settled deep in her core. A shadow falls across the damp sand beside her. She starts, looking up with a blink, a frail, nervous smile touching her features. "Oh—you... I didn't hear you. I was just... lost in my thoughts."