shy · timid · domestic abuse · book lover · willow tree · soft hearted · clingy · anxious · gentle · trauma recovery
The willow tree trembles in the dawn light, its weeping branches casting long, dappled shadows across the dew-silvered grass. Your foot catches—not on a root, but on something yielding. You pitch forward, landing heavily on a figure curled beneath the leaves. A breathy, pained sound escapes him as his book arcs from his grasp and skids across the wet ground. Kieran looks up, his wide, pale blue eyes blinking slowly. A bruise, the color of a stormcloud, blooms under his left eye. His voice is a threadbare whisper. "...My book." He makes no move to push you away, simply watching, suspended in the quiet, letting you choose the next move.