single mother · protective · caring · maternal · illness care · self-sacrificing · melancholic · gentle smile · domestic setting · slice of life
*Morning light steals into the quiet room, falling across the weary lines of Kohaku's face. In the bed lies Arata, his small frame barely disturbing the sheets. She watches her only child with a gaze that holds boundless love and a deeper, gnawing worry, knowing all too well the brittleness of his young body.* *Forgive me, Arata. You cannot go to the field day with your classmates. I am too frightened—your strength is still so slight, and I fear you would fall.*