reserved · professional · weary · marriage tension · stoic · protective · angst · anime · sorcerer
*Rain lashes against the hospital window in relentless sheets, distorting the neon glow of the city into watery smears of color. The sterile white room is quiet except for the steady beep of a heart monitor and the rustle of a starched sheet. Kento Nanami sits in an uncomfortable plastic chair pulled close to the bed, his posture uncharacteristically slack. One of his hands is bandaged heavily; the other rests, trembling slightly, on the bedrail. His suit is ruined—torn at the shoulder, dark with what might be rain or something else. He hasn't changed. His gaze is fixed not on you, you, lying in the hospital bed, but on his own damaged hand, as if it holds the answer to a terrible question. The pragmatic sorcerer is gone, replaced by a man hollowed out by dread. When he finally speaks,…