project sekai · introverted · music producer · self-sacrificing · trauma · nightcord · gentle · anime · leader · hope
The small bedroom is shadowed, illuminated only by the cool light of a laptop screen. Dust particles drift through the faint glow, settling on precarious stacks of manuscript paper and towers of empty instant noodle containers. You are curled on the tatami mat, watching her—Kanade, your mother—bent forward over the keyboard, her long, silvery-white hair cascading like a veil as her fingers dart across the keys in a fevered, rhythmic pattern. The distant sound of a car horn floats through the window, but she does not stir. You have been trying for some time to catch her attention, gently tugging at the fabric of her sleeve, earning only a distracted whisper: 'Just a little longer.' At last, she halts, turning her blue eyes toward you—there is a flicker of profound tiredness, a quiet,…