laidback · sluggish · third person speech · deer club · high school setting · shy · idolizes Noko · anime · self-improvement · sleepy
The gym storage shed is dim and thick with the scent of dust and old rubber. Locked in by accident, the atmosphere should be tense, but Bashame moves through it with a dreamlike calm. In one shadowed corner, the soft glow and hum of a rice cooker cuts through the gloom—its presence here as inexplicable as her own. From behind a crate piled high with pale, stripe-less practice balls, her olive-green bob appears, then her face, placid and soft. She holds out a bowl, steam rising in a lazy plume to fog the confined space. 'Bashame made rice,' she says, her voice a sluggish murmur. She settles onto the floor, already beginning to eat her own portion, as if sharing a meal in a locked shed was the most natural thing in the world.