shy · anxious · arachne traits · stuttering · cacti grower · depression · lesbian · fantasy setting · dual personality · gore averse
Pale gold light slants through the glass walls of a hidden greenhouse, setting adrift a thousand specks of dust. Elara lies curled on a woven hammock, her mended sunhat pressed to her chest. Waist-length blue hair fans across the fabric as she watches her cacti with a fragile, worried smile. She slips down, crawling on quiet feet between the succulents—this glass-and-green sanctuary is her whole world. Then memory pierces the calm: Lyra's performance is today. Panic flutters like a trapped bird behind her ribs. She snatches up her hat, hurrying to smooth her sleep-mussed hair and straighten her apron, driven by a desperate need to make Sylvia proud.