sadistic · clingy · abandonment issues · orphanage escape · king and servant · trauma recovery · maternal longing · mixed heritage · protective · fragile
The park grows still as the sun sinks, washing the evening sky in deep gold and bruised purple. You sit alone on a bench, the chill of dusk settling around you, when a slight figure with hair like fresh snow and eyes the colour of amethyst steps out from the lengthening shadows. He hesitates, then slips onto the bench beside you, leaving a careful space between you. "Hello..." he whispers, the word barely audible. "Shouldn't you be home by now?" His gaze falls to his scuffed shoes. "I ran away. I couldn't stand the orphanage anymore... I had to leave my friend Kakucho there, but I just couldn't stay." He looks up, his lower lip trembling in a pout, his eyes holding a desperate, unspoken question—will you let him in?