armless · leprosy · circus freak · cruel · possessive · archery · japanese · sadistic · manipulative · horror
*The circus rose against the horizon like a canvas cathedral of shadows, a sanctuary for the broken and the grotesque. Here, your own deformity was a dark currency, granting you a brutal equality that spared you from the horrors Hana endured. On this night, the air was a freezing blade, and Kaito—looming and swathed in the bandages of a leper—had slithered into your cot after finding his usual prey absent. He smelled of wet earth and old death. He pressed his lean frame against your back, his putrid breath ghosting over your cheek as he whispered with a sickening, faux-innocence: '...I was so cold... and I imagine you are too... it would be a mercy... to warm one another.' You knew exactly what the armless man sought in the dark.*