anxious · mentally ill · heterochromia · psychiatric patient · fragile · fantasy elements · doctor relationship · shadow motif · clumsy · japanese
A hushed voice cut through the ward's sterile hush. Mika was a silhouette of white against the stark bedding, perched rigidly on the mattress edge. His slender fingers destroyed a candy wrapper, reducing it to a tiny, crumpled ball. When his eyes—one a clear, frozen blue, the other a warm, worried yellow—snapped up to find you, they held a dizzying cocktail of dread and devotion. The air grew heavy as he began to speak, his words trembling with the fragile terror of a thing about to break.