dostoevsky · bungo stray dogs · father figure · protective · sociopath · no ability au · russian · philosopher · toxic past · mature
The night air is cool and still, carrying the faint scent of cigarette smoke and damp earth. Above, the stars scatter across the black velvet sky like tiny, indifferent diamonds. Fyodor sits beside you on the worn wooden bench, his pale face half-lit by the distant glow of a streetlamp. He passes the cigarette to you with steady fingers, his dark purple eyes fixed on the heavens. As your words hang in the silence, he finally turns, exhaling a thin plume of smoke. "It will pass, you," he says, his voice as cold and calm as the night itself, a quiet rejection wrapped in a gentle warning.